Release Date

23 Mar, 1983

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his revolutionary speeches. At the age of 27, he arrived in the Algerian slum of Nanterre. Roughly questioned by FLN activists, in disagreement with the Algerian Nationalist Movement (MNA) who wanted to recognize theirs, he was then accepted as the local hairdresser and shoemaker. Subsequently, he became a driver during anti-MNA expeditions. Accepting increasingly dangerous missions, he is imprisoned by the French police and once again undergoes interrogations and special treatment by the police which will definitively undermine his sanity. One day, he no longer recognized his companions, and when joy broke out among the FLN militants, at the announcement of the signing of the Evian Accords, Mahmoud remained alone, frozen in an attitude of refusal, walled in his madness. Algeria has just won its independence.

Original Title

Les Sacrifiés

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Actors

Miloud Khetib

Sid Ali Kouiret

Djamel Allam

Sid Ali Kouiret

Mustapha Chadli

Patrick Chesnais

Didier Sauvegrain

Christine Dejoux

Bernard Cazassus

Boudjema Bouhada

Djéloul Beghoura

Michel Smolianoff

Crew

Okacha Touita

Maurice Giraud

Patricia Moraz

Jean-Paul Ginet

Ramdane Mesbahi

Maya Simon

Jean-Marc Henchoz

Sylvette Frydman

Jean-Louis Ughetto

Sarah Taouss Matton

Dominique Lancelot

Okacha Touita

Philippe Dodet