The 317th Platoon

The 317th Platoon
Directed byPierre Schoendoerffer
Written byPierre Schoendoerffer
Produced byGeorges de Beauregard
Benito Perojo
StarringJacques Perrin
CinematographyRaoul Coutard
Edited byArmand Psenny
Music byPierre Jansen
Gregorio García Segura
Release date
  • 31 March 1965 (1965-03-31)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$66,000[1]
Box office1,653,827 admissions (France)[2]

The 317th Platoon (French: La 317ème section) is a 1965 French black-and-white war film set during the First Indochina War (1946–54) written and directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer. The film was based on Schoendoerffer's 1963 novel of the same name.

Plot

In 1954 while the Battle of Dien Bien Phu is being fought, the 317th Platoon, composed of Laotian suppletive troops, a French officer and several NCOs, is ordered to go to the Tao-Tsai post in North Cambodia. From there it hopes to reach friendly ground and evacuation towards Kratieh on the Mekong.

The leaders of the platoon are the fresh Second-Lieutenant Torrens and Warrant Officer (Adjudant) Willsdorff, a highly experienced soldier who is in his third turn in Indochina. Willsdorff is an Alsatian who was incorporated by force in the German Wehrmacht and fought on the Russian front.

One of the NCOs Sergeant Roudier is mortally wounded in an early encounter set off unnecessarily by his officer's verve. The Laotian troops place their trust in cautious Willsdorff who knows the ropes and leads hardly by proxy through the marshes and tropical forests of Cambodia.

Meager supplies are parachuted to the platoon by a friendly plane but part of the load is dropped into enemy lines. Fatality strikes and Lt Torrens eventually dies. Willsdorf leaves him to take refuge with mountain tribes.

Cast

Production

Schoendoerffer had been a POW in Vietnam following the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.[3]

The film was shot with a crew of six in the middle of a Cambodian forest during the rainy season. Extreme realism is constant throughout a gripping film shot barely ten years after the actual events took place. French military routine, drills and jargon are perfectly depicted. "I imposed a strict military regime on everyone," Schoendoerffer said. "A war film shouldn't be made in comfort."[4]

Reception

It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best Screenplay.[5] It was the 21st most popular film at the French box office in 1965.[2]

Legacy

In 2018, military historian Sir Antony Beevor named The 317th Platoon as "the greatest war movie ever made", "followed closely by 1966's The Battle of Algiers".[6]

References

  1. ^ Ferguson, Sarah. "Return to Diên Biên Phû", Sight and Sound; London, Vol. 1, Iss. 8, (1 December 1991): 26.
  2. ^ a b "1965 French Box Office". Box Office Story.
  3. ^ "Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Filmmaker, Dies at 83". The New York Times. 14 March 2012. p. A25. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Pierre Schoendoerffer". Bergan, Ronald. The Guardian 16 March 2012: 36. "He was one of the few directors of war movies with first-hand experience of conflict".
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The 317th Platoon". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
  6. ^ Beevor, Antony (29 May 2018). "Antony Beevor: the greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

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