Le dernier des fantassins

Le dernier des fantassins is an exclusive report of rare intensity that tells the heretofore little-known story of the life of lieutenant-colonel Charly Forbes.

This Quebecois hero is his nation’s most decorated soldier. During the Second World War, this remarkable soldier fought in Europe. Later, he served in Korea.

The man was a rarity. Painter, sculptor, violinist, writer, speaker, ornithologist, and a prolific storyteller…In this documentary, in colourful fashion and with great emotion, he recounts events that, in the telling, ring true with such poignancy that we are now moved to tears, now left splitting our sides laughing.

Le dernier des fantassins is the exclusive story—unique, inspired, thrilling—of a man who was close to death a thousand times and who miraculously came back from the brink of death to deliver up his poignant account with astonishing vitality…all of this, as it happens, only a short time before he left us for good at the age of 89.