The Outlaws

The Outlaws — Plot

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.

• Release date
• January 1, 1969
• Runtime
• 97 min
• Genres
• Drama, Western
• Director
• Tewfik Farès

The Outlaws — Cast

Sid Ahmed Agoumi Slimane Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine) Moh Mohamed Chouikh Ali Malek Kateb Brahim Brahim Hadjadj Le Charretier Djohra Bachene Zhera Jacques Monod L'administrateur Areski Nebti