Dir. Life and Nothing But (French: La vie et rien d'autre) is a 1989 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Maj. Dellaplane is a military man in World War I who takes on the unenviable, emotionally painful task of sifting through the bodies of men killed in the Verdun countryside and helping their relatives identify them. Life and Nothing But (French: La vie et rien d'autre) is a 1989 French war drama movie directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, François Perrot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Jean-Paul Comart, Daniel Russo, Frédéric … Both projects are heartbreaking and, in some important sense, impossible. Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. The setting is in and around the fields of Verdun, and the time is after the last battle of World War I has been fought. Life and Nothing But. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. At the end of World War I, the aging Major Dellaplane (Philippe Noiret) has been given the soul-numbing job of matching 350,000 missing French soldiers with their families' descriptions. January, 1920. LIFE AND NOTHING BUT is a rather slow-moving, but provocative romantic war drama about a World War I French officer who helps two women search for their loved one despite the devastation that surrounds them. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. Life and Nothing But is set on the front, but after the war, where the French are trying both to tally their losses and commemorate their victory. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. Life And Nothing But (La Vie Et Rien D'Autre) ( 21 ) IMDb 7.5 2h 10min 1989 ALL Dellaplane has also become reluctant shepherd to an ad hoc society grown around the legions of widowed wives and mothers combing the French countryside for word of their loved ones. Bertrand Tavernier. Life and Nothing But book. 1989 | 13+ | 2h 11m | Dramas. The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. 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