It is “a film about transmission”, introduces Omar Sy, at the microphone of
Madame Figaro
.
Tirailleurs
tells the story of Bakary Diallo (Omar Sy), a Senegalese father who joins the French army in 1917, to join his son Thierno (Alassane Diong), conscripted by force to fight in the trenches of the First World War. world.
Bakary must then deal with a son who has become an adult, “this rocking is quite violent”, notes the actor at our microphone.
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Shot in part at Fort Douaumont, the site of the Battle of Verdun, the film deals with the rather unknown story of the corps of Senegalese skirmishers.
Constituted under the colonial empire in 1857 by Napoleon III, they will serve the French army.
It is estimated that 30,000 of them lost their lives on French soil between 1914 and 1918.
"We don't understand each other anymore"
Beyond the historical aspect, it is the father-son tandem that the actor puts forward here.
“My father made me understand that the transmission does not concern only him and me, finally.
It's a link in a big, big chain,” he continues.
"Do you want to be the link that breaks?"
he asks again, in an almost ontological question.
Also evoking his family experience, in particular that with his nephews whom he raised, he continues: “We no longer understand each other, (…) it is no longer the child, but it is the adult.
I am no longer the father, I am the equal”.
Like a callback to the movie.
Tirailleurs
by Mathieu Vadepied will be released in theaters this Wednesday, January 4.
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