Ceasefire
MovieTitle | Cessez-le-feu |
User score | 6.3 |
Release date | Apr 19, 2017 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Emmanuel Courcol |
Production country | Belgium, France |
Production companies | Polaris Film Productions, uMedia, Fontana |
Run time | 103 min. |
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.