December
02/01/1973
2h



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.
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
Jean-Claude Bercq
Le commandant Leteil


Mustapha Kateb
Khédija


André Rouyer
L'aumônier


Jacques François
Serge de la Prévoteraie


Jean-Pierre Castaldi


Jacques Castelot
Ben Ali Chouerani


Gérard Darrieu


Hassan El-Hassani
Keltoum
Malik Lakhdar-Hamina


Leila Shenna
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