Omar Sy leads a World War I drama built on a single, aching decision: a father who signs up for the French Army so he will not be separated from the teenage son the army has already taken.
What is Father & Soldier about?
Set during World War I, Father & Soldier follows a man in French Senegal whose 17-year-old son is conscripted against his will. Unwilling to let the boy face the front alone, the father enlists himself, and the two are shipped out together into a European war that has nothing to do with the colony they left behind. Director Mathieu Vadepied frames the story less as a battlefield epic than as a study of a bond tested by an institution neither man chose to serve. The son's resentment at being pulled from his home collides with the father's stubborn, protective instinct, and the film tracks how that friction shifts once both are standing in the same trench. It is a war film where the enemy fire matters less than what the two men owe each other by the time it stops.
About the cast
Omar Sy anchors the film as the father, working in a register quieter than his best-known comic roles, opposite Alassane Diong as the son whose conscription sets the plot in motion. Jonas Bloquet, Bamar Kane, Alassane Sy, Clément Sambou, Ibrahim Ba, and Oumar Sey fill out the unit around them, giving the colonial regiment a lived-in, specific feel rather than a generic backdrop of soldiers.
Context & significance
Father & Soldier is a French-Senegalese co-production, and that dual billing is the point: it tells a World War I story from the colonial side of the French army, a perspective period war dramas rarely centre. The genre mix of action, drama, historical, and war signals a film more interested in consequence than spectacle, using the mechanics of combat to keep pressure on a relationship the war itself never asked for.
Watching Father & Soldier on Ktime
Father & Soldier streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the father-and-son story without subtitles. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page, cast details, and background here are open to read without one. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for the diaspora audience this kind of historical drama tends to reach.