December

December — 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.

• Release date
• January 2, 1973
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

December — 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

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Jean-Claude Bercq Le commandant Leteil Mustapha Kateb Khédija André Rouyer L'aumônier