The Colonel

2006 110 min Crime, Drama, History, War

'Reformed Colonel' Raoul Duplan is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Assigned to investigate, Lieutenant Galois receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi, who served under Duplan in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as MIA since 1957. The revelations in Rossi's diary far surpass Duplan's actions in Algeria, and give insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.

budget $3,900,000

director Laurent Herbiet

writers Laurent Herbiet, Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg