
This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison.
Marthe

Simon

le colonel

Rose Bireau

Henri

Lucien

le bleu
Pierrot

Gauthier

la sœur de Pauline

Martin

un soldat
Mouloud

Thérèse
l'adjudant "Gros Q"
