title: A Captain's Honor
text: # A Captain's Honor
  
  A Captain's Honor (French: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
  
  ## Plot
  
  A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war.
  
  She decides to sue the man who accused him of being a torturer and thus begins an investigation which retraces the Captain's last two weeks, day by day.
  
  The film uses numerous flashbacks depicting battle scenes in Algeria.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Nicole Garcia (Patricia Caron, the widow)
  * Jacques Perrin (Marcel Caron, the captain)
  * Georges Wilson (the barristers president)
  * Charles Denner (Gillard, the defense counsel)
  * Claude Jade (Valouin, the lawyer of the indictment)
  * Georges Marchal (General Keller, a witness)
  * Christophe Malavoy (Automarchi, a witness)
  * Jean Vigny (Prof. Paulet, a historian)
  * Florent Pagny ("la Ficelle")
  