Black and White in Color(Movie, 1976)

Name: Black and White in Color
Genre: Drama, Comedy, War
Released: 1976
Duration: T01:30:00
Rating: 3.2

Original title: "La Victoire en chantant" (French/FR)

1h 30min | Genres: Drama, Comedy, War

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

Black and White in Color (French: La Victoire en chantant, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is a French-Ivorian 1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set in the African theater of World War I, during the French invasion of the German colony of Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts. The original French title is the first four words (the first line) of the song Le Chant du départ, a French military song. It won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; it was submitted to the Académie de Côte d'Ivoire, resulting in that country's first and only Oscar. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Black and White in Color

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film nominated for: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About Black and White in Color

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Germany, France

Plays in: Africa

Made by: France 3 Cinéma, Allied Artists, Reggane Films, Artco-Film, Les Films S.F.P.

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: French (FR)

Translated into 10 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 01/01/1976

Cast: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Peter Berling, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll, Dieter Schidor, Claude Legros, Jacques Monnet, Marc Zuber, Maurice Barrier

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Producer: Jacques Perrin, Arthur Cohn

Screenwriter: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Film Editor: Françoise Bonnot

Director of Photography: Claude Agostini

Composer: Pierre Bachelet

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La victoire en chantant"

"Noirs et blancs en couleur"

Keywords: africa, colonialism, german colonialism, french colonialism

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