film profile], which screened in the closing slot of the Directorsâ Fortnight.
Cineuropa: Where did you get the idea for this story and what made you want to tell it?
Rachel Lang: I did my time in the army when I was 19 years old and I found it so intense that it made me wonder how men get back to a normal routine and day-to-day life. How do their wives cope with it? Civil life seemed so flat⦠These men lived together 24-7, holed up in trenches, avoiding grenades. It was later that I began to wonder how these men also managed to live up to their wivesâ expectations. In addition, I wanted to make a film about relationships, and the hardest place to have a relationship is in the Foreign Legion. Wives donât have any status, legionnaires enlist as single men and for 5 years they donât have the right to get married or have children. Some of them enlist despite having a family, but theyâre not lawfully married.
Rachel Lang • Director of Our Men
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Rachel Lang • Director of Our Men
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