December
2 January 1973| 95 min
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
DramaWar
Cast
Michel Auclair
Sid Ali Kouiret
Julien Guiomar
Geneviève Page
André Thorent
Jean-Claude Bercq
Mustapha Kateb
André Rouyer
Jacques François
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Jacques Castelot
Ben Ali Chouerani
Gérard Darrieu
Hassan El-Hassani
Keltoum
Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
Leila Shenna
