Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color (French: La Victoire en chantant, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is an Ivorian 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 Central Africa during World War I, and is set in the then German colony of Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts.

Black and White in Color
Directed byJean-Jacques Annaud
Produced byArthur Cohn
Jacques Perrin
Giorgio Silvagni
Written byJean-Jacques Annaud
Georges Conchon
Music byPierre Bachelet
CinematographyClaude Augostini
Edited byFrançoise Bonnot
Production
company
France 3 Cinéma
Reggane Films
Smart Film Produktion
Société Française de Production (SFP)
Société Ivoirienne de Cinema
Distributed byAllied Artists (USA)
Release date
  • 22 September 1976 (1976-09-22)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
Ivory Coast
LanguageFrench

The original French title is the first four words (the first line) of the song Le Chant du départ, a French military song.

It won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film;[1] it was submitted to the Académie de Côte d'Ivoire, resulting in that country's first and only Oscar.

Cast

Reception

John Simon described Black and White in Color as an "absolute gem".[2]

Around the film
  • According to French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, producer Arthur Cohn never allowed him to attend to the Academy Awards ceremony and publicly receive the Oscar because he felt the American public took for granted that this film was directed by a native African.
  • Theatrically released twice in France, before and after it received the award, this film was a commercial disaster on both occasions.

See also

References
  1. "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  2. Simon, John (2005). John Simon on Film: Criticism 1982-2001. Applause Books. p. 645.


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