The little soldier

Classical works abound with archetypal male characters. What if these characters became women, in roles less respectable than those usually reserved for them? That's what La petite soldate, which takes up the challenge by reinventing the famous musical tale The Soldier's Tale, composed in 1917 by Igor Stravinsky with lyrics by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz—the story of a soldier on leave who makes a pact with the Devil: his violin in exchange for a book that reads the future.
In La petite soldate, the devil and the soldier are two women represented by life-size dolls; the soldier's violin is a record player; the Devil's book is a Bee Gees record; and it is no longer the Great War, but the war for Algerian independence.
As in the original story, it ends badly; but there's disco to cheer you up.