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Monday 15th @1.30pm | Cork Opera House |
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Indigénes
Rachid Bouchareb
2006 | 128mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled
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This superb movie tells the shameful story of the African colonial soldiers who fought in the Second World War and were then cruelly betrayed. These ‘indigénes’ are the blacks and Arabs recruited from France’s African colonies to fight for La Patrie in the Second World War, and this powerful film sets out to show how these members of L’Armee de l’Afrique were used, exploited, humiliated and then cast aside. It’s written and directed with controlled anger by a French movie-maker of Algerian parentage. It begins with the recruitment of Arab soldiers in 1943 in Algeria and Morocco to take part in the invasion of Italy and then to the liberation of mainland France. The movie centres on four of them who’ve joined for a variety of reasons They join a unit of the Seventh Algerian Infantry Regiment in the platoon commanded by tough Sergeant Martinez, introduced as a pied noir but revealed as being half-Algerian. The Observer
Winner Best Actor (for the ensemble male cast) Cannes Film Festival 2006
Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee 2006
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