The film tells the story of the stalemate between the French 701st Infantry Regiment and Germany during the First World War, confronting each other in the anthill position. General Miró believed that the French army were cowards, and ordered the bombardment of his own people, but was rejected by the artillery officer. In the end, three soldiers were unfortunate enough to take the blame for everyone on the death row.
At the beginning of the story, the two generals began to conspire with the world. Antor Mountain was a very important position in the German-French conflict, and is now in the hands of the Germans. The French army was insufficient and difficult to attack, but once the attack was successful, it would have a huge impact on the entire war. General B persuaded General A to attack the mountain, but General B knew that his troops were insufficient and the Germans had heavy artillery fire, so he refused.
But General B threw out an introduction that would make General A successful in this battle, and General A was moved. It was the soldier who died in the battle, not him. Victory was bound to gain honor. The soldier was wounded and died for the sake of patriotism. . General A then responded to the matter of attacking the mountain, but he still said righteously: "Soldiers come first."
In order to boost morale, General A personally supervises the soldiers. From time to time, he sees the soldiers and asks: "Are you ready to kill more Germans?" "Are you ready to kill more Germans?" "Are you ready to kill more Germans?" If the soldiers are firm, General A will be very happy, and if the soldiers show a skeptical side, General A will be furious and let him get out!
At this time, the captain who really loves soldiers came into people's sight. General A ordered him to lead his soldiers to attack Mount Ante. Although he expressed his opposition, the order had to obey, so he had to prepare to attack.
The junior officer took two soldiers to investigate at night (one of them was his old classmate, but because he did not admire him, his relationship with him was not very good), that night, the junior officer drank wine and took two soldiers with him. Investigating, soldiers exploring the way, the little officer threw a grenade in fear because he could not see him, and it killed a soldier. Because of his fear, he ran back regardless of the life of the other person. He returned to write a report to the lieutenant, saying that the two had died during the investigation. Unexpectedly, another soldier (that is, his old classmate) came back alive. The soldier pointed out his mistake, and he threatened him with his rank and lack of witnesses. There was no other way, the soldier had to shut up.
The war started, and the French army with insufficient soldiers was obviously not the opponent of the German artillery fire. The war was extremely tragic. The artillery fire flew in front of the trenches, while the captain raised his chest and shuttled freely in the smoke and bombs without moving. He led the soldiers to attack, but unfortunately the German artillery fire was too fierce. Many soldiers died before they got out of the trenches, and many others died one after another on the way to charge.
There was also a squad that did not set off at all, because the artillery fire was too intense and it was impossible to charge at all. Seeing this, General A was furious, and even let his troops fire artillery to attack the troops that didn't go to charge. The artillery refused, but General A repeatedly threatened with military law, and the artillery refused regardless of power.
Therefore, someone must be responsible for the outcome of this war, and General A's anger must also be vented. Under the conspiracy of General B, he is preparing to open a military court to execute "cowards" who did not charge forward, and kill chickens as an example to "motivate the monkeys". Morale", to ensure the determination of soldiers to keep going. The captain naturally tried his best to be right about this matter. He was careful in front of the two generals and fought hard, but he still couldn't escape the fate of his subordinates being executed. But in the end the two generals changed their choice and sent a "coward" from each squad to be sent to a court-martial, ready to be tried by death (the act of having to find a "coward" is inherently absurd, it's like " Death Quota").
Three hardies were chosen, the first was chosen because he was not popular with the public, the other was chosen by lottery, and the last was the old classmate of the junior officer and the soldier who knew the secret of the junior officer. . The absurd selection method also chose absurd people. The three are clearly heroic warriors, but they have become "cowards".
Helpless, the three guys became the victims of General A's anger. Let the captain come forward. It was useless to help him in every way. The trial court is the world of General A, and the captain's arguments here are all nonsense. Even if it is fair and just, the result is that three soldiers must die, and three people are sentenced to death in this way.
General A is determined to execute these three people, General B is as cunning as a fox, and the captain is desperate to fight for the soldier's expectation of making a living regardless of his identity and status.
Before the three of them died, interesting things happened in prison. The priest prayed for them, and kept chanting "God", saying that this is God's choice and that he should repent here. At this time, only those who were drunk were sober. One of the drunk soldiers expressed his feelings, and he beat the priest. After he was not stopped by his partner, he crippled him with a punch. But despite being disabled, you still have to accept the death penalty. If you can't walk, then carry a stretcher to the death penalty!
The captain was not reconciled, and obtained evidence that General A asked to fire on his own army, and went to General B to discuss. Despite this, General B rejected his idea, and the captain felt helpless, but couldn't speak.
The three "cowards" went to the execution ground, and the captain sent the junior officers to carry out the execution. The three of them were no accident, struggling and terrified, and faintly paralyzed on the stretcher, they died.
Afterwards, at the dinner of General A and General B, the captain was also called over. Unexpectedly, General B actually threw out the evidence that the captain fired at his soldiers, until General A was in a dead end (the movie has always been in an ambiguous state, whether it is right or wrong, whether it is evil or evil. It seems like a good person, It doesn't seem to be a good thing. At the end of the movie, it is discovered that everything was set up by him. The dead soldiers and the captain's evidence are all for his service to bring down General A. In fact, he is clearly capable of preventing The death of three innocent soldiers, but he did not).
General B asked the captain if he wanted to replace the position of General A. The captain disregarded his power, and finally broke out at this moment, berating General B, and General B was furious and threatened.
At the end of the movie, the captain returns to his barracks and sees the soldiers entertaining in the house (from the captain's point of view, the soldier's eyes, the performance on stage, and the sad and uncomfortable German girl, and their song)
Finally, the order of war had come, and the captain had to go to the battlefield again.
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