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Overview
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 2, 1973
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Algeria
- Production
- Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC),O.N.C.I.C.,Telcia Films,Office des Actualités Algériennes (OAA)
- Cast
- Mustapha Kateb,Sid Ali Kouiret,Jacques François,Jean-Pierre Castaldi,André Rouyer,Leila Shenna,Malik Lakhdar-Hamina,Jacques Castelot,Jean-Claude Bercq,Ben Ali Choueraniand 7 more
- Director
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Cinematography
- Jean Charvein
- Music
- Philippe Arthuys
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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