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Black and White in Color

The picture that marches to a different drummer

6.4(44)19761h 32m2

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

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Released
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Language
French
  • africa
  • colonialism
  • french colonialism
  • german colonialism

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Cote D'Ivoire, France, Germany, Switzerland

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical8 May 1977
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical25 Dec 1977
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU22 Sept 1976
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical28 Sept 1979

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Black and White in Color was released on 22 September 1976.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/27/2025

    7/10

    There’s something really quite fitting about the end of this film that rather sums up the whole approach to Africa that was taken by the European powers. This film is set on the Côte D’Ivoire where the war has once again pitched the adjacent French and German forces against each other. The French aren’t immediately convinced that this is remotely their war, but eventually the soldiers decide that they ought to do the…

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