Philippe Noiret
Major Delaplane
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Synopsis. Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Delaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. He encounters two women looking for their lost men: Irène, an aristocrat, and Alice, a country girl.
- $11.3 million
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Frédéric Bourboulon, Albert Prévost, René Cleitman
Sep 6, 1989 · Life and Nothing But: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier. Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.
- (2.1K)
- Drama, War
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1989-09-06
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At the end of World War I, Major Delaplane (Philippe Noiret) has a grim assignment ahead of him -- he must count the corpses left on the battlefields and determine their identities. While in the...
- (15)
- Bertrand Tavernier
- PG
- Philippe Noiret
Sep 1, 2011 · Life and Nothing But (1989) By Judy Coffin. French historians love this film. It’s hard to convey the horrors of what was long called The Great War: the almost unimaginable losses at battles like Verdun and the Somme; the mobilization of whole economies, states, and societies to supply those battles and to replenish the men and material ...
Delaplane is an army officer who is consumed by his job of identifying the missing, of finding corpses and tracing who they were. His superiors think he is reckless and unreliable. The generals, the politicians and the industrialists want nothing more than to let the missing stay missing.
Life and Nothing But (1989) U 10/02/1989 (US) War , Drama 2h 15m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. Overview. January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier."
Synopsis. Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Delaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. He encounters two women looking for their lost men: Irène, an aristocrat, and Alice, a country girl.
