Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1969
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Algeria
- Production
- O.N.C.I.C.
- Cast
- Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane,Kaci Ouchen,Jean Bouise,Jane Augier,Salima,José Villa,Ali Doumi,Jacques Monod,Brahim Hadjadj,Mohamed Chouikhand 14 more
- Director
- Tewfik Farès
- Writer
- Tewfik Farès
- Cinematography
- Rachid Merabtine
- Music
- Georges Moustaki
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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