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ESPRIT DE CORPS Glory's ensemble cast (including Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem and Sami Bouajila, pictured) took honors at Cannes
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Limited Release: Feb 16, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 120 Minutes; Genres: Drama, War; With: Jamel Debbouze and Samy Naceri
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's great, important drama about North African soldiers fighting for France in World War II, has the contours of a traditional 1940s war pic, focused on the lives of individual soldiers in and out of battle. But the story Bouchareb tells is something no classic has tackled before — that of patriots fighting for a homeland that didn't treat them with égalité. (The picture has shamed the French government into granting pension increases.) The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival — and rightly so.


Posted Dec 13, 2006
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