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December (1973)
Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Overview
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.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
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 Hassani | Keltoum | Malik Lakhdar-Hamina | Leila Shenna