Patrouille de choc

Patrouille de choc, English title Shock Patrol is a 1957 French war film set during the First Indochina War that was written and directed by Claude Ogrel under the name Claude Bernard-Aubert. Ogrel was a war correspondent in French Indochina from 1949-1954 and this was his film debut. The film was the first French film about the First Indochina War. The original title Patrouille sans espoir (Patrol Without Hope) was changed along with the original pessimistic ending.