Destins: Général De Bollardière (1975)

The exceptional portrait of a pacifist general, the only senior officer to have spoken out against torture. This precious testimony still remains censored in France, since no national channel has to date decided to program this documentary. Son and brother of a soldier, General Pâris de Bollardière was destined for a career in arms. He was, for many years, one of the most brilliant representatives of this adventurer career in France, from Narvik to the Algerian War. After fighting in the French maquis, he reached Indochina, where he suddenly found himself in the aggressor's camps. His beliefs are strongly shaken. But it is in Algeria, where the French army practices torture and summary executions, that he takes the big turn. He expresses his contempt to Massu, and is relieved of his command. Until his death in 1986, Jacques de Bollardière fought for world peace, from the Larzac plateaus to the Mururoa atolls.

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Jacques Pâris de Bollardière
as Self

Simone de Bollardière
as Self

Jean-Marie Muller
as Self

Paul Teitgen
as Self

Jacques Massu
as Self

Guy Mollet
as Self

Pierre Messmer
as Self

Robert Lacoste
as Self

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Henri Rossier
Cinematography

Gérard Rhône
Sound

Eliane Guignet
Editor

André Gazut
Director

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