| Black and White in Color | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Screenplay by | Georges Conchon |
| Story by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Produced by | Arthur Cohn Jacques Perrin Giorgio Silvagni |
| Cinematography | Claude Augostini |
| Edited by | Françoise Bonnot |
| Music by | Pierre Bachelet |
Production companies | France 3 Cinéma Reggane Films Smart Film Produktion Société Française de Production (SFP) Société Ivoirienne de Cinema |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists (USA) |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Countries | France Ivory Coast Germany Switzerland |
| Language | French |
Black and White in Color (French: La Victoire en chantant, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is a French-Ivorian 1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set in the African theater of World War I, during the French invasion of the 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.
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.
- ^ "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25 March 2012.