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      • The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
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  2. Yves Angelo’s film is based on a novella by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in a magazine in 1832 and was later folded into La Comédie humaine in 1844. The eponymous protagonist, Colonel Chabert, was a derelict of the Napoleonic Empire.

  3. In Le Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system, founded on honour and military valour; and that of the Restoration. Chabert was not killed at the Battle of Eylau, though it was thought that he was.

  4. Le Colonel Chabert (English title: Colonel Chabert) is a 1994 French historical drama film directed by Yves Angelo and starring Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Fabrice Luchini. It is based on the novel Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.

  5. even prove his right to his true, heroic identity; instead he has to dress and act the parts that circumstances force on him. Chabert's progress through the story is a charade in different cos-tumes; he appears in a different way in each scene, and these different appearances condition the way he is treated by others. In this first

  6. Mar 20, 2011 · They are falshbacks and represent what the Colonel Chabert remembers from the battle of Eylau where he was so severely wounded that he was reported dead. While the book is rightly called Le Colonel Chabert , the movie could also have been called The Countess Ferraud .

  7. Dec 23, 1994 · Working here with co-screenwriter Jean Cosmos, Angelo was not surprisingly drawn to the Balzac story that “Colonel Chabert” is based on. For no writer has a greater zest for psychological...

  8. Oct 18, 2013 · The story is a simple one: Colonel Chabert had fought under Napoleon, and was "instrumental in the success of Murat's famous charge" in the Battle of Eylau (1807); a hero, everyone has come -- quite reasonably -- to believe that he died in the battle. But, against all odds, he survived.

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