
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.
- 7.7
- 1969
- Released
- 1h 37m

Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Slimane
Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)
Moh
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
Jane Augier
Hélène
Nourredine Agoulmine

Salima

Marien Bengharbi

Tayeb Abou El Hassan

José Villa

Yannick Brouville

Kaci Ouchen

Ali Doumi

Mohamed Hamdi

Mohamed Mokhtari
Released
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