Field of Honor (1987 film)


Field of Honor is a 1987 French war film directed by Jean-Pierre Denis. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

In France, impoverished sharecropper Pierre is spared military service when he draws an exemption via a draft lottery. Needing money more than his freedom, however, Pierre sells his exemption to the son of wealthy aristocrat Arnaud, taking the son's place in the draft. When the Franco-Prussian War erupts, Pierre finds himself wounded inside enemy territory and gains an unlikely ally in a German soldier who also entered the war as a replacement.

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