The read
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do. It runs long at 2h 34m.
Synopsis
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
22 audience votes
Key crew
- Ousmane SembèneDirector
- Thierno Faty SowDirector
- Ousmane SembèneScreenplay
- Thierno Faty SowScreenplay
Cast
- Sidiki BakabaCast
- Hamed CamaraCast
- Philippe ChamelatCast
- Moussa CissokoCast
- Marthe MercadierCast
- Ismaila CisséCast
- Ababacar Sy CisséCast
- Eloi ColyCast
- Ismaël LôCast
- Pierre LondicheCast
- Camara Med DansoghoCast
- El Hadg NdiayeCast