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This film, based on the posthumous accounts of two soldiers, relates the odyssey of 20,000 Russian soldiers who were "lent" to the Allies in exchange for arms. In March 1917, after a year of fighting in the trenches of Champagne, they received news of the revolution back home and immediately requested their repatriation. When Russian and French authorities refused, they elected committees and dismissed their commanding officers at the very moment when mutinies were breaking out among French soldiers. Fearing the situation would spread, the military command sent the Russians to the camp at La Courtine in the Creuse region. Here, 12,000 armed men, living in conditions of democratic autonomy, held out for three months against the orders and threats of the military command. Finally, the latter laid siege to the camp; the repression was brutal. The survivors only returned to Russia late in 1919.

France - 1999 - 1 h - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Patrick Le Gall Scénario Patrick Le Gall Conseiller historique Rémy Adam Image René Lartigaud, Claude Neumüller Son Jean Quenelle, Christelle Parot, Daniel Tofalloni, Serge Lobry Montage Véronique Sanson Musique Sylvain Kassap Textes dits par Alex Walz, Gérard Sergues, Éric Sarner

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