The Conscript (Dutch: De loteling) is a 1974 Belgian drama film directed by Roland Verhavert, based on the eponymous 1850 novel by Hendrik Conscience.

[1] It was also selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 47th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

[2] The Conscript is set in rural Flanders in Belgium in the early 19th century.

After the son of a local notable is conscripted into the Belgian Army, he pays Jan Braems, a poor farmer's boy, to volunteer for military service in his place under the system of remplacement.

He visits a prostitute and contracts venereal disease which he attempts to cure by washing his eyes with own urine causing him to go blind.