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Beau travail
original title:
Beau travail
other titles:
Good Work, (Der Fremdenlegionär)
country / year of production:
France
/
1999 (x)
original length:
90 min. , color
premiere:
I: 4 September 1999, Venice Film Festival
genre:
adventure
based on:
director:
Claire Denis
film script:
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plot synopsis:
keywords:
foreign legion
,
boot-camp
,
mercenaries
,
desert
war:
literature:
Heike Kühn. "Beau Travail". In: Epd-Film 17 (2000), 4, 11.
Herman Melville. Billy Budd, Foretopman. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1948.
remarks:
Won a "César" in 2001.
availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD