Beau Travail
| Beau Travail | |
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| Directed by | Claire Denis |
| Screenplay by | Jean-Pol Fargeau Claire Denis |
| Based on | Billy Budd by Herman Melville |
| Produced by | Patrick Grandperret |
| Starring | Denis Lavant Michel Subor Grégoire Colin |
| Cinematography | Agnès Godard |
| Edited by | Nelly Quettier |
| Music by | Eran Tzur |
| Distributed by | Pyramide Distribution |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | French Italian Russian |
| Box office | $570,000 |
Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Jean-Pol Fargeau as a loose adaptation of the novella Billy Budd by Herman Melville. The story follows a section of French Foreign Legion soldiers training in the desert of Djibouti. Parts of the film's soundtrack are taken from Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera based on Melville's novella.