Officer’s Ward DVD – Sabine Azéma, Géraldine Pailhas

Adrien Fournier (Éric Caravaca) is a handsome young officer in the French army who returns from service in the First World War with a horribly disfigured face. He is sent to recover in military hospital amongst other young men injured by the war, and slowly, in their company, he begins to regain his sense of self-worth. However, the biggest challenge will be to learn to face the outside world again.

Adapted from the hugely acclaimed best-selling novel by Marc Dugain writer-director Francois Duperyon’s The Officer’s Ward is an insightful honest and profoundly moving meditation on love loss and the physical and mental scars inflicted by the horror of war. Screened in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film festival The Officer’s Ward atmospherically creates the world of Adrien Fournier (Eric Caravaca) a handsome young French officer who returns from the front with hideous facial