'Lupin' star back with 'Father & Soldier'

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'Lupin' star Omar Sy is making his big screen comeback with 'Father & Soldier',a politically minded WWI action-drama about family bonds and Africa's forgotten war heroes.

Shooting now in France, the film is being helmed by Mathieu Vadepied, who made his directorial debut with 'Learn by Heart', which world premiered at Cannes' Critics Week.
Vadepied also worked as the artistic director and cinematographer on 'Untouchable', Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's 2010 comedy smash hit which marked Sy's acting breakthrough and earned him a Cesar nod, reports variety.com.
The story opens during the First World War, in 1917, in the French colony of Senegal. Sy stars as Bakary, a father who enlists in the army to stick by Thierno, his 17-year-old son, who was recruited against his will. Together, father and son must fight the First World War in the trenches in France. Thierno is ready to sacrifice his life to fight for France, a country he knows little about. His father, meanwhile, sets off to protect him at all costs.