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.
Cast
- Sid Ahmed Agoumi as Slimane
- Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine) as Moh
- Mohamed Chouikh as Ali
- Malek Kateb as Brahim
- Brahim Hadjadj as Le Charretier
- Djohra Bachene as Zhera
- Jacques Monod as L'administrateur
- Areski Nebti
- Jean Bouise as Marc
- Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane