Camp de Thiaroye (1988)

Directors

Ousmane Sembène

Cast

Sidiki Bakaba, Mohamed Camara, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé

The story

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. All is well until the soldiers start to complain about the food offered in the camp, to which the French commander says he will do nothing about, as meat is…

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