Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert

1943 · 98 min · ★ 6.9 · Drama

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.

Directed by René Le Hénaff

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