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Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
Overview
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Length 154 minutes
Actors
Sidiki Bakaba | Hamed Camara | Philippe Chamelat | Moussa Cissoko | Marthe Mercadier | Ismaila Cissé | Ababacar Sy Cissé | Eloi Coly | Ismaël Lô | Pierre Londiche | Camara Med Dansogho | El Hadg Ndiaye | Thierno Ndiaye Doss | Oumarou Neino | Pierre Orma | Daniel Odimbossoukou | Ibrahim Sane | Jean-Daniel Simon | Gustave Sorgho | Gabriel Zahon | Koffi Saturnin Zinga | Casimir Zoba | John Peterson | Marcel Duplouy | Gerard Maxent | Robert Morgan | Charles Estifian | Éric Dudoit | Laurent Kuntz | Adama Sambou | Innocence Coly | André Massoni | Lamine Mane | Leopoldine Robert | Marie-Ève Duplouy