Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy, Jean-Laurent Cochet, Roger Dumas, Jean-Louis Richard, Robin Renucci, Sophie Grimaldi, Hippolyte Girardot, Saïd Amadis, Florent Pagny
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.