The Great Swindle

Now a major French film Au revoir là-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece
by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille.

October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one
last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle
sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite
his men to heroic action once more.

And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably
bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who
witness his crime: Albert Maillard and Édouard Péricourt.

Back in civilian life, Albert and Édouard struggle to adjust to a society
whose reverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those who
survived. But the two soldiers conspire to enact an audacious form of revenge
against the country that abandoned them to penury and despair, with a scheme
to swindle the whole of France on an epic scale.

Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action, Édouard's sister Madeleine
has married Pradelle, who is running a little scam of his own...