Camp de Thiaroye

1988 · 2h 34m · 7.5

War, Drama

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.

Thierno Faty Sow, Ousmane Sembène

Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Philippe Chamelat, Moussa Cissoko, Marthe Mercadier, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé, Eloi Coly, Ismaël Lô, Pierre Londiche

africa, world war ii, senegal, autobiography