December
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.
Top cast
Michel Auclair
Colonel de St-Méran
Sid Ali Kouiret
Si Ahmed
Julien Guiomar
Le général Beaumont
Geneviève Page
Béatrice de St-Mérand
André Thorent
Le général Michon
Jean-Claude Bercq
Le commandant Leteil
Mustapha Kateb
Khédija
André Rouyer
L'aumônier
Jacques François
Serge de la Prévoteraie
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Jacques Castelot
Ben Ali Chouerani
Gérard Darrieu
Hassan El-Hassani
Keltoum
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 2, 1973
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Original language
- FR
- Original title
- Décembre
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