In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

• SFP
• Albina Productions S.a.r.l.
• Gérard Depardieu
• Philippe Noiret
• Catherine Deneuve
• Sophie Marceau
• Michel Duchaussoy
• Jean-Laurent Cochet
• Roger Dumas
• Jean-Louis Richard