Camp de Thiaroye (1988)

2h 34m
Running Time

September 6, 1988
Release Date

Camp de Thiaroye (1988)

2h 34m
Running Time

September 6, 1988
Release Date

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ENAPROC - Entreprise Nationale de Production Cinématographique
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Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Marcel Duplouy

Marcel Duplouy

Gerard Maxent

Gerard Maxent

André Massoni

André Massoni

Lamine Mane

Lamine Mane

Leopoldine Robert

Leopoldine Robert

Laurent Kuntz

Laurent Kuntz

Éric Dudoit

Éric Dudoit

Camara Med Dansogho

Camara Med Dansogho

Pierre Londiche

Pierre Londiche

Eloi Coly

Eloi Coly

Marthe Mercadier

Marthe Mercadier

Moussa Cissoko

Moussa Cissoko

Philippe Chamelat

Philippe Chamelat

Innocence Coly

Innocence Coly

Marie-Ève Duplouy

Marie-Ève Duplouy

John Peterson

John Peterson

Gabriel Zahon

Gabriel Zahon

Koffi Saturnin Zinga

Koffi Saturnin Zinga

Casimir Zoba

Casimir Zoba

Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan

Charles Estifian

Charles Estifian

Details.

Release Date
September 6, 1988

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 34m

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Wiki.

Camp de Thiaroye ([kɑ̃ də tjaʁ.wa]; also known as The Camp at Thiaroye) is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow.

The film entered the competition at the 45th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Grand Jury Prize. The film depicts the Thiaroye massacre, which happened in Thiaroye, Dakar, in 1944.

The film is about the mutiny by and mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on the night of November 30 to December 1, 1944. West African conscripts were protesting poor conditions and revocation of pay at the Thiaroye camp. The film is a criticism and indictment of the French colonial system.The film documents the events leading up to the Thiaroye massacre, as well as the massacre itself. The film received positive reviews at the time it was released and continues to be heralded by scholars as an important historical documentation of the Thiaroye massacre.The film was banned in France for a decade and censored in Senegal as well.

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