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.
Director and cast
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Director
- Michel Auclair as Colonel de St-Méran
- Sid Ali Kouiret as Si Ahmed
- Julien Guiomar as Le général Beaumont
- Geneviève Page as Béatrice de St-Mérand
- André Thorent as Le général Michon
- Jean-Claude Bercq as Le commandant Leteil
- Mustapha Kateb as Khédija
- André Rouyer as L'aumônier
- Jacques François as Serge de la Prévoteraie
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi Cast
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