Pierre Schoendoerffer Movie Trailers

A Captain's Honor Trailer (1982)

29 December 1982

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957.

Above the Clouds Trailer (2003)

06 October 2003

Henri Lanvern is shooting a film in Thailand. One evening, at the end of the shooting, he sees a friend of the war, General Cao Ba Ky, escaped from a communist re-education camp.

Drummer-Crab Trailer (1977)

09 November 1977

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

Diên Biên Phu Trailer (1992)

04 March 1992

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

Vietnam Trailer (1955)

01 May 1955

Story of the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in which Soviet Union has actively supported Vietnamese side.

Objective: 500 Million Trailer (1966)

29 June 1966

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War.

Farewell to the King Trailer (1989)

03 March 1989

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.

Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory Trailer (2011)

15 October 2011

Pierre Schoendoerffer revisits his life and career, with a strong focus on the impact that his experience as a war cinematographer for the French army during the Indochina War had on him.

Island Fisherman Trailer (1959)

24 June 1959

Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.

The 317th Platoon Trailer (1965)

31 March 1965

In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked.