Beau travail [videorecording] / une coproduction La Sept Arte, Tanaïs Com, SM Films ; produit par Jérôme Minet et Patrick Grandperret ; scénario, Jean-Pol Fargeau et Claire Denis ; un film de Claire Denis.
Letterboxed 16:9. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999. Based on a work by Herman Melville. Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet.
Summary:
Story of a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion in Djibouti whose ordered life is turned upside down with the arrival of a new recruit who finds favor with the unit's commander. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
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