Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Michel Auclair

Colonel de St-Méran

Sid Ali Kouiret

Si Ahmed

Julien Guiomar

Le général Beaumont

Geneviève Page

Béatrice de St-Mérand

André Thorent

Le général Michon

Mustapha Kateb

Khédija

André Rouyer

L'aumônier

Jacques François

Serge de la Prévoteraie

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Jacques Castelot

Gérard Darrieu

Hassan El-Hassani