Opium and the Stick (1970)
2h 17m
Running Time
September 14, 1970Release Date
Opium and the Stick (1970)
2h 17m
Running Time
September 14, 1970Release Date
Plot.
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
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Cast & Crew.
Mustapha Kateb
Lazrak
Rouiched
Tayeb
Sid Ali Kouiret
Ali
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Chaudier
Marie-José Nat
Farroudja
Brahim Hadjadj
Omar
Abdelhalim Rais
Hassan El-Hassani
Brahim Ben Brahim
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 14, 1970
Original NameL'Opium et le Bâton
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 17m
Genres
Wiki.
L'Opium et le Bâton (transl. The Opium and the Stick) is a 1971 Algerian drama film directed by Ahmed Rachedi. It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.
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