December 1973

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Drama War

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.

Homepage http://africine.org/film/decembre-real-mohamed-lakhdar-hamina/3680
Release Date 1973-01-02
Runtime 1h 35m
Directors Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Jean Charvein
Producer
Writers Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Georges Arnaud, Mohamed Maarfia, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina