Jean-François Balmer

To strengthen family ties, to free his teenagers from their digital addiction, to reconnect with his roots in the region of his childhood; this is why Régis decides to take his wife and children on a surprise vacation in the Vercors. An old ruined house lost in the forest. No water, no electricity, even less network or wifi. Nothing is going to happen as planned

Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a donation to France of two paintings, one by Gauguin and the other by Munch. The same evening, his daughter Lara, is kidnapped by a mysterious organization, which demands as ransom the publication of texts casting opprobrium on this supposedly virtuous man, while the media is already actively seizing the case.

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brought together to investigate the death of James Crawley, a 91 year-old former GI, found tied to a pole and in his uniform, apparently executed "as an example".

A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.

Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.

In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.

한때 작가를 꿈꾸던 고등학교 문학 교사 제르망과 갤러리를 운영하는 그의 아내 쟝. 평범한 일상을 보내던 그들에게 클로드란 학생의 작문 과제가 눈에 들어온다. 친구 라파의 가족 이야기를 써낸 클로드의 작문에서 묘한 매력과 재능을 발견한 제르망. 클로드의 작문은 제르망과 쟝에게 다시금 활력과 열정을 불러일으킨다. 하지만 점점 도를 지나치는 클로드의 행동과 이를 부추기는 제르망의 호기심은 걷잡을 수 없는 방향으로 치닫는데…

A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.

The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She's not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.

가장 유력한 차기 대통령 후보 윈스턴의 명령 하에 무법도시 데이지 타운을 지키던 보안관 럭키 루크는 우연히 부모를 죽인 원수를 마주쳐 그를 살해하고 만다. 살인범이 된 루크는 총을 버리고 마을을 떠나지만, 자신이 정말 살인을 저지른 것이 아니라 모든 것이 조작되었단 사실을 알게 된다. 데이지 타운을 둘러싼 정치가들의 거대한 음모를 파헤치기 위해 럭키 루크가 이제 다시 총을 뽑는다.

Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where preparations for a local ancient festival are under way. Matteo spends the eve of the festival with Lidia and three other boys from the village. The group of kids begins a dangerous game, bringing up obscure mysteries that are rooted in the past of that mountain valley. Matteo thus goes through a sort of initiation, at the end of which he is able to exorcise his fears, but only after becoming uncomfortably conscious of the existence of evil.

서울, 뉴욕, 프랑스에서 활약중인 3명의 감독들이 각자의 시선에서 바라본 도쿄를 그리고 있는 옴니버스 무비. 미셸 공드리가 연출한 1부 아키라와 히로코는 의자가 되어 버린 여자라는 동화적인 소재를 다루고 있다. 주변으로부터 소외감을 느끼는 주인공 히로코가 자신의 존재가치를 깨닫게 되는 과정을 그린다. 2부 레오 까락스의 광인은 하수도에 사는 괴물이 도쿄 시내에 신출귀몰하면서 펼쳐지는 이야기. 3부 봉준호 감독의 흔들리는 도쿄는 히키코모리의 사랑을 다룬다. 11년 동안 히키코모리 생활을 하고 있는 남자는 매주 토요일이면 시켜먹는 피자배달 소녀를 사랑하게 되고, 어느 날 사라진 소녀를 찾아 결국 외출을 감행한다.

On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French capital was being liberated. Accused of collaboration with the enemy, the author of successful plays ("My Father was Right," "Let's Make a Dream," "Quadrille") and director of the theatre of the Madeleine was to remain captive for sixty days. His detention took from from the depot, to the Vel' d'hiv', then Drancy, and finally Fresnes Prison.

After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in the theft of a precious jewel belonging to a rich heiress.

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.

In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies, Jean his law studies. A rivalry is born between the brothers when Jean, the youngest, inherits the fortune of Dr. Maréchal, his godfather, who has just died in the colonies.

Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

Voilà dix ans que les chemins de René et de François se sont séparés. De l'époque glorieuse où, flics, ils écumaient le quartier Montmartre, il ne leur reste qu'une poignée de souvenirs, l'argent de leurs ripouseries s'étant évaporé avec le temps. Tout à une fin. Jusqu'à ce que ça recommence. René, à la limite de la clochardisation, survit avec pour domicile un bateau déglingué...

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.

A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.

Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.

Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.

Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.

Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.

1922년 마르셀 프루스트는 죽음의 문턱에서 사진들을 훑어보며 자신의 인생을 회고한다. 실존 인물은 소설 속의 등장인물과 혼재하고 점차 허구의 세계는 실재를 장악한다. 문학작품을 재료로 한 루이즈의 야심찬 각색.

30대의 매력적인 여성 베티는 프랑스 한 지방도시 호텔 카지노에서 세미나 참석차 들른 기업체 간부 샤티용을 유혹한다. 음료수에 몰래 수면제를 타서 샤티용을 잠들게 한 베티는 자기 아버지뻘 되는 동료 빅토르와 함께 그의 지갑을 털어 달아난다. 캠핑카를 타고 프랑스와 인접국들을 누비며 각종 학회 및 세미나장을 방문해 참석자를 대상으로 사기·절도를 일삼는 베티와 빅토르의 다음 무대는 치의학 세미나가 열리는 스위스의 휴양지 실스 마리아. 그러나 베티는 빅토르에게 예고도 없이 범죄조직 자금운송책인 모리스와 함께 그곳에 나타난다. 스위스 은행에서 거액을 인출해 카리브해 서인도제도로 운반하는 중책을 맡은 모리스는 그 과정에 베티를 방패로 활용할 작정인 반면 베티는 그런 모리스의 환심을 산 후 돈 가방을 빼돌릴 작정이다. 당초 계획에 차질이 빚어져 당혹스러운 빅토르는 평소의 활동 반경을 넘어서는 일에 연루되는 것에 겁을 먹지만 결국엔 베티의 뜻을 따르기로 한다. 모리스와 베티는 예정대로 돈 가방을 들고 서인도제도 과들루프 행 비행기를 타고, 빅토르는 신문지로 채운 가방을 들고 기내 화장실에 숨는다. 베티는 실은 자신과 빅토르가 돈 가방을 바꿔치기하여 훔쳐갈 계획을 세웠다고 모리스에게 미리 실토하듯 언질을 준다. 그러나 실제로 화장실에서 접선한 베티와 빅토르는 가방을 바꾸는 시늉만 한다. 베티의 말을 곧이곧대로 믿은 모리스는 착륙 후 빅토르를 만나자 자신의 가방(돈 가방)과 그가 들고 있던 가방(신문지 가방)을 바꿔 들고 떠난다.

Carole is ready to do anything to save the Guyanese forest and the Wayanas Indians from the pollution of the Gerson laboratories! Fearless and determined, our adventuress will face the unscrupulous men sent by the laboratories to make her give in. In the jungle where she grew up, she is the strongest. But she is accompanied by Bruno, a clumsy young French policeman.

The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

The turbulent relationship between a filmmaker and a volatile actor.

This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on glass. It is supposed to contain Buddha's discourse upon memory. While he is there, an attractive nurse, Julia asks him to assist a young boy who wants to locate his father who is now living in a Tamil-occupied area. The Tamil terrorists will kill any trespassers. Compounding JB's conflict in deciding to go is that his former home where he lived with his wife is in that area. Unbeknownst to him, the boy is really a Tamil spy.

In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He quickly ignores the interdiction of getting in touch with Chinese people and finds himself drawn into mysterious meetings at the Red Pavilion. MY CHINESE SISTER is a movie about pretense and the mystification of reality.

June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess.

A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.

Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.

After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.

한 미국 기자는 프랑스와 베트남의 57일간의 디엔비엔푸 전투가 한창이던 중 취재 차 하노이에 오게 된다. 그는 프랑스군의 패배와 항복, 그리고 프랑스가 결국 베트남에서 철수하는 결과를 초래한 자신을 발견하게 되는데… (채널 더 무비)

전통적인 수녀원 교육을 받고 자란 농부의 딸 엠마는 낭만적이면서도 상승 욕구가 강한, 그러면서도 평범한 처녀이다. 빼어난 미모나 엄청난 재력과도 거리가 먼 시골 소녀인 그녀는 역시 평범한 의사인 샤를르 보바리와 결혼한다. 낭만적인 사랑, 짜릿한 순간들을 꿈꾸던 그녀에게 샤를르와의 결혼은 지루하기만 했다. 그러던 중 공작의 무도회에 초대받게 되고, 엠마는 처음으로 상류 사회의 무도회에 참석하게 된다. 무도회의 경험은 평생 그녀의 기억 속에 남아 있게 된다. 무도회가 끝나고 다시 평범한 생활로 돌아온 그녀는 일상에 지쳐 곧 우울증에 빠지고 이를 안 샤를르는 엠마의 기분을 위해 큰 도시로 이주한다. 옹발로 이사한 후 엠마는 딸을 낳는다. 여기서 그녀는 로돌프라는 무력하면서 다소 비극적 이미지의 귀족과 사랑에 빠진다. 동시에 그녀는 사치를 하기 시작한다. 하지만 자신의 행동을 후회하곤 한다. 그녀는 마음을 잡기위해 아이를 돌보고 남편을 내조하는데 열중한다. 하지만 이뽈리뜨의 수술이 실패하고 난 후 남편에게 실망한 나머지 로돌프에게 도망갈것을 제안한다. 그러나 그녀는 그에게 거절의 편지를 받고 절망한다. 엠마의 기분 전환을 위해 루엉으로 로페라 나들이를 하게되고, 그때 레옹과 재회하고 그의 사랑고백으로 그들은 가까워진다. 하루이틀 청구서를 미루면서 엠마는 재정적 압박을 받게되고, 레뤠씨에게 위임장을 써 주나 결국은 엄청난 돈을 청구받기에 이른다. 레옹에게도, 로돌프에게도 돈을 빌리지 못한채 모든 희망을 잃은 엠마는 자살을 선택한다.

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.

헤어살롱에서 일하는 세 명의 젊은 아가씨, 릴리와 마도 그리고 파스칼은 모두 길 건너편 옷가게 주인의 아들인 로비를 좋아한다. 릴리는 헤어살롱의 매니저인데 살롱 주인의 정부이기도 하다. 마도는 순진하고 귀여운 아가씨이며 파스칼은 아주 똑똑하지만 비관적인 사고방식을 갖고 있다. 로비의 아버지는 그에게, 똑똑하면서 야무진 릴리와 가까이 지내라고 얘기하지만 로비는 마도에게 갑작스럽게 청혼하는데...

Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Vichy government. Algerians are being called up for service in the Vichy military, and Jews in the village are in danger of deportation. A beautiful young schoolteacher named Claire Boyer (Veronique Jannot) arrives in town and turns every male head within miles, including 14-year-old Mouloud (Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, the director's son). Simon Attal (Michel Boujenah), a fellow teacher and a Jew, is also attracted to Claire, and so is Mouloud's older brother. Suddenly two murders occur in the village, Simon is in danger of being deported, and the tone shifts from the dreams of boyhood to the realities of manhood.

Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.

When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin (Richard Berry), a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza (Fanny Bastien), whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau (Jean Francoise Balmer), the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.

The beginning of the 20th century. Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrendered complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of...

Charlotte (Catherine Deneuve) flies to East-Africa in order to build a touristic center near the Lake Williams where the pygmys live. Here she meets her husband Victor (Philippe Noiret), a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to built this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.

In Passy, ​​Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.

When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.

In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.

장-아르투르는 여행사 직원이다. 어느 날, 그는 새로운 여행 상품을 떠올린다. 고객들에게 완전히 새로운 체험을 하게 만드는 것이다. 얼마 후, 그의 고객들은 음식은 물론 쉴 곳조차 없는 섬에 도착하게 된다.

A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

그가 가는곳엔 항상 여자가 따른다. 타고난 정열로 매일 쉴사이 없이 바쁜남자! 그의 곁엔 숱한 여자들이 스쳐가는데! 그런데 그를 끝내 차지하고만 여자가 나타났다. 그녀는 정말 행운녀일까? 아니면......

In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...