11 alone, 10 with a parent.
Alone, or with you
Alone from 11; from 10, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.
The sweet spot: around 15-17, when you are studying decolonisation, and can discuss a military intervention without admiring or condemning it in advance. Why a sweet spot?
In France, zinema would say 14.
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Warn that civilians are executed, women and children included, and that the gunfights last; the film hides nothing.
at 11 and up
The legionnaires arrive after the massacre: what justifies a country sending soldiers into another?
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