Le pantalon

Le pantalon
  • Release date: 8 Dec 1997
  • Release year: 1997
  • Runtime: 101 minutes
  • Country: France
  • Keywords: trousers, officer, young father, world war one, based on true story, farrier, troop inspection, reference to alexandre dumas, judicial murder, army uniform
Plot:
In the beginning of world war one Lucien Bersot, a farrier and young father has joined the army.During the distribution of clothes Lucien receives white trousers instead of the regular red trousers.Some days later during a troop inspection an officer insists that Lucien must wear the regular red trousers; a sergeant presents him red trousers with blood stains coming from a corpse of a soldier.Lucien does not accept these red trousers and is then arrested until his judgment in the martial court.
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