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Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP05 Oct 2022 6:06 p.m. PST

This is a scene form one of my favorite movies "Fort Saganne." The DVD comes with subtitles.

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Shagnasty Supporting Member of TMP06 Oct 2022 9:53 a.m. PST

I've never heard of this film. It is an interesting twist on the "legion in the fort" films.

Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP06 Oct 2022 1:42 p.m. PST

It's not well known in the US. I don't believe it was ever released here. Very underrated colonial era film. Came out in 1984 to great fanfare in France. Be sure if you buy the DVD that it is made for the US region and that it has English subtitles. I have the double VHS tape and I just recently ordered the DVD.

jurgenation Supporting Member of TMP06 Oct 2022 4:17 p.m. PST

Great Film.

Lilian16 Oct 2022 4:42 a.m. PST

at least this time nothing to do with the ad nauseum overestimated Foreign Legion-Hollywood and Beau Geste folklore

concerns the forgotten but exotic Saharian Companies and others Nomadic Meharists Algerian Goums in Sahara

inspired by the life of Lieutenant Gardel of Tidikelt Saharian Company /Affaires Indigènes Officer and the combat of Esseyen in april 1913 at the Southern Saharian Libyan-Algerian confines where 40 Saharian meharists fought 14 hours, including by night, againt 350 Senussi attackers before a bayonet charge

Lieutenant Gabriel Gardel
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Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP26 Oct 2022 2:38 p.m. PST

I wish my DVD would get here. Otherwise I have to have my VHS copy converted.

Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP29 Nov 2022 8:35 p.m. PST

I got my DVD with the English subtitles and it is just as great a film as I remember it. I do question the WWI scenes. The Turcos are in green rather than horizon blue. The green looks dead on for 1940.

Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP29 Nov 2022 8:43 p.m. PST

Interesting that I don't remember seeing any native French enlisted personnel. All line officers commanding Turcos. The fort was manned by Trucos which is correct, it is a Hollywood myth that all French forts were garrisoned by the Legion. Most were garrisoned by native troops like the Trucos and then only when necessary, otherwise the fort would remain unmanned for extended periods of time.

Good scenes involving the Saphis, Turcos, and the Senegalese Tirailleurs. I had forgotten about that crazy Captain of the Tirailleurs. That was an odd scene but the uniforms were correct. The extended periods of isolation in those forts,"Le Cafard" was a real problem

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