Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
September 6, 1988Release Date
Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
September 6, 1988Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Sidiki Bakaba
Actor
Hamed Camara
Actor
Ismaila Cissé
Actor
Ababacar Sy Cissé
Actor
Ousmane Sembène
Director
Thierno Faty Sow
Director
Mustafa Ben Jemja
Producer
Ouzid Dahmane
Producer
Mamadou Mbengue
Producer
Ismaël Lô
Composer
Kahéna Attia
Editor
Hachim Joulak
Sound Mixer
Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina
Director of Photography / Cinematography
Rachid Bouafia
Sound Engineer
Nadia Bensekar
Makeup Artist
Adama Sambou
Marcel Duplouy
Gerard Maxent
André Massoni
Lamine Mane
Leopoldine Robert
Laurent Kuntz
Éric Dudoit
Camara Med Dansogho
Pierre Londiche
Eloi Coly
Marthe Mercadier
Moussa Cissoko
Philippe Chamelat
Innocence Coly
Marie-Ève Duplouy
John Peterson
Media.
Details.
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.