For
France
is inspired by a true story.
That of its author, Rachid Hami, of his family, of his brother.
Lieutenant Jallal Hami, the second son of three siblings, born in Algeria and raised in Seine-Saint-Denis, a brilliant student at Sciences Po Paris and a new recruit at the School of Army Officers in Saint- Cyr Coëtquidan, drowned in an icy pond, one night in October 2012. In the jargon of the school, we do not speak of hazing but of "bahutage" to designate an exercise of integration as much as humiliation , organized by the second year.
The scene opens the film.
It gives way to the pain of the family, to the tears of a mother.
Aïssa (his first name in the fiction), the handsome young man full of the future, is a corpse dressed in the prestigious uniform.
For France
, the indictment against the army is not predictable and expected.
Even if the great mute intends to preserve the honor of the institution and does not yield anything on the protocol of the funeral - the family wishes…
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