Ceasefire

(2017)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 55 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2017

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: Belgium, France

Director: Emmanuel Courcol

Cast: Romain Duris, Селин Саллетт, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Грегори Гадебуа, Yvon Martin, Wabinlé Nabié, Morwenna Spagnol, Thibault Pinson

Plot

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.