December

December

1973 fr 95 minutes

Rating: 10

Plot

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.

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Cast

Michel Auclair

Michel Auclair

Colonel de St-Méran

Sid Ali Kouiret

Sid Ali Kouiret

Si Ahmed

Julien Guiomar

Julien Guiomar

Le général Beaumont

Geneviève Page

Geneviève Page

Béatrice de St-Mérand

André Thorent

André Thorent

Le général Michon

Jean-Claude Bercq

Jean-Claude Bercq

Le commandant Leteil

Mustapha Kateb

Mustapha Kateb

Khédija

André Rouyer

André Rouyer

L'aumônier

Jacques François

Jacques François

Serge de la Prévoteraie

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Jacques Castelot

Jacques Castelot

Ben Ali Chouerani

Ben Ali Chouerani

Gérard Darrieu

Gérard Darrieu

Hassan El-Hassani

Hassan El-Hassani

Keltoum

Keltoum

Malik Lakhdar-Hamina

Malik Lakhdar-Hamina

Leila Shenna

Leila Shenna

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