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 ...
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In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
Camp de Thiaroye
1988 ‧ War/Drama ‧ 2h 37m
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During World War II, Diatta (Ibrahima Sane) is a Senegalese student serving as a sergeant as his country fights alongside the French, even though that same nation raided his village and killed much of his family years earlier. Then, after...
Release date: September 5, 1990 (NY)
Directors: Thierno Faty Sow and Ousmane Sembène
Languages: French, English, and Wolof
Distributed by: New Yorker Films
Music by: Ismaël Lô
Produced by: Mustafa Ben Jemja; Ouzid Dahmane; Mamadou Mbengue
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Co-directed and co-written by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow, Camp de Thiaroye excavates a harrowing postwar tragedy from 1944: the Thiaroye Massacre, ...
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The Thiaroye massacre was a massacre of French West African veterans of the 1940 Battle of France, by French forces on the morning of 1 December 1944.
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Distressfully raw and tragic war drama based on the Thiaroye Massacre of 1944 that tackles racism and privilege of French colonialism head-on. Director Ousmane ...