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.

Genres

Cast

Sid Ahmed Agoumi

Slimane

Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)

Moh

Mohamed Chouikh

Ali

Malek Kateb

Brahim

Brahim Hadjadj

Le Charretier

Djohra Bachene

Zhera

Jacques Monod

L'administrateur

Areski Nebti

Jean Bouise

Marc

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Mostéfa Stiti

L'Auxiliaire