Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years of wandering, but everyone has long considered him dead. It seems very problematic to prove the ...

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes ...

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Handsome adaptation of Balzac's novel, set in 19th-century France, about a presumed-dead war hero (Gerard Depardieu) who returns home after 10 years to reclaim his fortune---and remarried wife (Fanny ...