Pierre Geller

France, 1965 - An aging mamma's boy becomes the replacement leader of a rowdy group of teenage boy scouts who make his life miserable. (imdb)

This is a fictionalized account of an incident in 1988 New Caledonia, a French colony when Kanak separatists killed three gendarmes and took another group hostage. A young French captain from the elite counter-terrorism group is sent to resolve the crisis and he finds all his skills being tested as he tries to negotiate a successful resolution without any further deaths. (tiff.net)