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Louis Guilloux’s book is one of the great novels of the 20th century. 24 hours in the life of a comical, ludicrous, sublime philosophy teacher who bears the weight of the world on his shoulders until his dying day. The story is set in 1917, in the high school of a provincial city far from the front. The war is very much present and weighs on the protagonists, in particular the hero, a philosophy teacher nicknamed “Cripure.” He is a man of keen intelligence who is unable to stand up for his own ideas and who makes compromises with the warmongers around him. Among them, a colleague named Nabucet. These two diametrically opposed individuals each bears his share of grandeur and mediocrity. Their confrontation provides the backbone of the film. Le Sang noir reveals passions intensified to a white-hot pitch by the distant war.

France - 2006 - 1 h 53 mn - Betacam Digital • 16 mm - Colour

Director Peter Kassovitz Adaptation Michel Martens, Peter Kassovitz based on Louis Guilloux Camera Bruno Privat Sound Daniel Banaszak Sets Muriel Wahnoun Editing Laurence Hennion Music Laurent Petitgirard Cast Rufus, Didier Sandre, Myriam Boyer, Michel Jonasz

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