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

Cast

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)

Mohamed Chouikh

Malek Kateb

Brahim Hadjadj

Djohra Bachene

Jacques Monod

Areski Nebti

Jean Bouise

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane