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1973, Jan 02
1h 35m
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.
Directed by
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Written by
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Jacques François
Serge de la Prévoteraie
Michel Auclair
Colonel de St-Méran
Geneviève Page
Béatrice de St-Mérand
Julien Guiomar
Le général Beaumont
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
André Thorent
Le général Michon
Sid Ali Kouiret
Si Ahmed
Gérard Darrieu
André Rouyer
L'aumônier
Leila Shenna
Mustapha Kateb
Khédija
Hassan El-Hassani
Jacques Castelot
Jean-Claude Bercq
Le commandant Leteil
Ben Ali Chouerani
Keltoum
Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
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