The film with Omar Sy on the fate of Senegalese skirmishers during the First World War, seduced a large audience and has just crossed the million admissions mark.
Skirmishers exceeds one million cinema admissions. The film with Omar Sy, which tells the little-known story of the skirmishers, is thus the first film of the year to cross this threshold. In 2022, only a handful of French films – Simone, the trip of the century, What the hell have we all done, Novemberand a few others – can boast of having exceeded one million admissions.
Mathieu Vadepied’s film, released on January 4, tells the story of a father, played by Omar Sy, who in 1917 enlists in the French army to join his son, recruited by force.
“Another Memory”
“This film, it tells the story of France with another memory”, underlined at the microphone of BFMTV, Omar Sy, who is also a producer of Tirailleurs.
The film, however far from the blockbusters, has not finished its astonishing journey, since according to Gaumont, the sessions organized for schoolchildren are gaining momentum.
“Immense gratitude to those who went to see Skirmishers yesterday. The proof that together we can with our multiple memories tell the common story. You make me even more proud to have brought this film to you. You are my strength and my France”, had also tweeted the actor, the day after the release of the film.
Forgotten by French politicians for decades, the Senegalese skirmishers and their heirs still deplore a lack of recognition today, in particular because of lower pensions than those of their French brothers in arms.
