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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Michel AuclairColonel de St-Méran
Sid Ali KouiretSi Ahmed
Julien GuiomarLe général Beaumont
Geneviève PageBéatrice de St-Mérand
André ThorentLe général Michon
Mustapha KatebKhédija
André RouyerL'aumônier
Jacques FrançoisSerge de la Prévoteraie
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Jacques CastelotCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Writer
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Director of Photography
- Jean Charvein
- Editor
- Hélène Arnal
- Editor
- Arnaud Petit
- Original Music Composer
- Philippe Arthuys