

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
2025 · Movie · 1h 31m
HistoryDramaDocumentary
Overview
1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algies School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.
Ratings
TMDB
6/10
Key crew
- Abdenour ZahzahDirector
- Abdenour ZahzahWriter
Cast
- Alexandre DesaneFrantz Fanon
- Frantz FanonSelf (archive footage)
- Gérard DuboucheDr. Ramée
- Nicolas DromardThe Hospital Director
- Omar BoulakirbaMr. Charef
- Catherine BoskowitzThe Head Nurse
- Amal KatebJuliette/Cléopâtre
- Rachid BenallalNouï
- Chahrazad KracheniJosie Fanon
- Frédéric RestagnoThe Police Commissioner
- Abdelkader AffakThe Survivor
- Tahar BenayachiThe Locked Up
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Themes
biographyalgeriastruggle for independencefrantz fanonfrancafriquepanafricanismdjazairanti-imperialismoccidental opression























