Black and White in Color 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 the Ivory Coast, Africa, during World War I. 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 of the song Le Chant du départ, a French military song. The film was a co-production between companies in France, Germany, the Ivory Coast and Switzerland. It won the... 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; it was submitted to the Academy by the Ivory Coast, resulting in that country's first and only Oscar. "Black and White in Colors" is also the title of a surrealistic/drama/animation Fiction feature film released in 2012 and directed by Leonardo Corbucci. The movie won the "The Rising Star" at the 2011 Canada International Film festival, and "Best of Fest" at the 2011 Official Best Of Fest film festival.
more