Michel Auclair
Colonel de St-Méran
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.
Director
Writer
Michel Auclair
Colonel de St-Méran
Sid Ali Kouiret
Si Ahmed
Julien Guiomar
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Geneviève Page
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Serge de la Prévoteraie
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Jacques Castelot
Ben Ali Chouerani
Gérard Darrieu
Hassan El-Hassani
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