About
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.
Director
Music
Studio
Telcia Films, Office des Actualités Algériennes (OAA), Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)
Original Title
Décembre
Original Language
French
Cast
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Michel Auclair
Colonel de St-Méran
S
Sid Ali Kouiret
Si Ahmed
J
Julien Guiomar
Le général Beaumont
G
Geneviève Page
Béatrice de St-Mérand
A
André Thorent
Le général Michon
J
Jean-Claude Bercq
Le commandant Leteil
M
Mustapha Kateb
Khédija
A
André Rouyer
L'aumônier
J
Jacques François
Serge de la Prévoteraie
J
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
J
Jacques Castelot
G
Gérard Darrieu
H
Hassan El-Hassani
M
Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
L
Leila Shenna
