LE FIGARO. - Why did you want to show the First War in the theater?
Géraud BÉNECH -
Literature and theater in particular have always maintained, from the outset, a close relationship with the story of war, at the crossroads of the tragic and the epic. And the “
Great War,
” as it is called, was a tragic climax for all who have experienced it. There is in the writings of War of Maurice Genevoix an epic power and a tragic depth of which I sought the theatrical translation, while being careful not to distort the force of what is above all a testimony. The young lieutenant is played by Rémy Chevillard, who carries this story like a coryphée. He is both her living figure and the voice of
Those of 14,
the ghost of a writing.
At his side, Stanislas de la Tousche, plays the elderly writer who in 1973 published La mort de près and who, at the other end of his life, revisits his memories of war and poses on them a
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