OK. I’m looking for a film that I saw on late night Channel Four television in the UK some time between 1986 and 1988 - so the latter represents the latest possible date for its production. Because this was late night Channel Four it was very probably a European film, probably in a non-English language, with English subtitles, and quite probably by a noted director. Here’s what I remember about the plot: there is a father and son, and I think it takes place between the wars. The son is quite grown up, an older teen or young adult. The father is aristocratic and teaches his son aristocratic values. He has a tendency to be scornful of aspects of the modern world. The son says at one point that some other person asked him “Are you as nihilistic as your father?” Another scene seems to be a dream of the son in which he is a boy playing on the beach, and his father rides up on horseback and delivers his philosophy, which is that the role of the aristocracy in these times is to remain aloof and uphold aristocratic values. I remember also a scene in which the son, whose been (I think) conscripted to the army, injures himself on an assault course and ends up in a wheelchair, but it is, I think, suggested that he injured himself deliberately as the only way of making sure that he doesn’t serve in the army and therefore gets to survive the impending war. At least, that’s what my memory tells me now, but of course my recollections could have been very distorted over the decades. If anyone knows what this could be I would be so very grateful!