Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
September 6, 1988Release Date
Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
September 6, 1988Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Sidiki Bakaba
Hamed Camara
Philippe Chamelat
Moussa Cissoko
Marthe Mercadier
Ismaila Cissé
Ababacar Sy Cissé
Eloi Coly
Ismaël Lô
Music
Pierre Londiche
Camara Med Dansogho
Ousmane Sembène
Director / Screenplay
Thierno Faty Sow
Director / Screenplay
Rachid Bouafia
Sound Engineer
Ouzid Dahmane
Producer
Nadia Bensekar
Makeup Artist
Kahéna Attia
Editor
Hachim Joulak
Sound Mixer
Mustafa Ben Jemja
Producer
Mamadou Mbengue
Producer
Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina
Director of Photography / Cinematography
Gabriel Zahon
Gustave Sorgho
Lamine Mane
André Massoni
Gerard Maxent
Leopoldine Robert
Marcel Duplouy
Éric Dudoit
Charles Estifian
Robert Morgan
Casimir Zoba
Koffi Saturnin Zinga
Pierre Orma
Oumarou Neino
Thierno Ndiaye Doss
El Hadg Ndiaye
Jean-Daniel Simon
Ibrahim Sane
Daniel Odimbossoukou
John Peterson
Marie-Ève Duplouy
Innocence Coly
Adama Sambou
Laurent Kuntz
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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.