Synopsis
In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Tewfik FarèsDirector
- Tewfik FarèsWriter
- Georges MoustakiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sid Ahmed AgoumiSlimane
- Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)Moh
- Mohamed ChouikhAli
- Malek KatebBrahim
- Brahim HadjadjLe Charretier
- Djohra BacheneZhera
- Jacques MonodL'administrateur
- Areski NebtiCast
- Jean BouiseMarc
- Mazouz Ould-AbderrahmaneCast
- Mostéfa StitiL'Auxiliaire
- Jane AugierHélène
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Themes
algeriaalgerian war (1954-62)