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Les Sacrifiés

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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.

Directed byOkacha Touita

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 37m
Language
FR
Released
March 23, 1983
Studios
Marion's FilmsLes Films de l'atelier

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Miloud Khetib

Miloud Khetib

Mahmoud

Sid Ali Kouiret

Sid Ali Kouiret

Hadj politique

Djamel Allam

Djamel Allam

Chaparol

Mustapha Chadli

Mustapha Chadli

Loubia Sandwich

Patrick Chesnais

Patrick Chesnais

Gino

Didier Sauvegrain

Didier Sauvegrain

Christine Dejoux

Christine Dejoux

Nadia

Bernard Cazassus

Bernard Cazassus

Boudjema Bouhada

Djelloul Beghoura

Djelloul Beghoura

Si Bachir

Creative team
Directed by
Okacha Touita
Okacha Touita
Written by
Dominique Lancelot
Okacha Touita
Okacha Touita
Produced by
Jean-Marc Henchoz
Sylvette Frydman

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