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Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
War, Drama · 2h 34m
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.
Cast
Sidiki Bakaba
Marthe Mercadier
Pierre Londiche
Crew
- Director
- Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
- Screenplay
- Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
- Director of Photography
- Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina
- Editor
- Kahéna Attia
- Producer
- Ouzid Dahmane, Mustafa Ben Jemja, Mamadou Mbengue
Details
- Release date
- 1988-09-06
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French, German, Wolof
- Countries
- Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia
- Production
- Films Kajoor, ENAPROC - Entreprise Nationale de Production Cinématographique, Filmi Domirev