Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color
Directed by	Jean-Jacques Annaud
Produced by	Arthur Cohn Jacques Perrin Giorgio Silvagni
Written by	Jean-Jacques Annaud Georges Conchon
Music by	Pierre Bachelet
Cinematography	Claude Augostini
Edited by	Françoise Bonnot
Production company	France 3 Cinéma Reggane Films Smart Film Produktion Société Française de Production (SFP) Société Ivoirienne de Cinema
Distributed by	Allied Artists (USA)
Release dates	22 September 1976 (1976-09-22)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France Côte d'Ivoire
Language	French

Black and White in Color (French: La Victoire en chantant, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is a 1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. It depicts French colonists at war with the Germans in West Africa during World War I, and is set in one of the then German colonies; either Togoland or Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts.

The original French title is the first four words (the first line) of the song Le Chant du départ, a French military song.

It won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; it was submitted to the Academy by Côte d'Ivoire, resulting in that country's first and only Oscar.

Cast

• Jean Carmet as Sergeant Bosselet
• Jacques Dufilho as Paul Rechampot
• Catherine Rouvel as Marinette
• Jacques Spiesser as Hubert Fresnoy
• Maurice Barrier as Caprice
• Benjamin Memel Atchory

See also

• African theatre of World War I
• List of submissions to the 49th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Sub-Saharan African submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• Black and White in Color at IMDb