Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Directors:
Thierno Faty Sow, Ousmane Sembène.
Writers:
Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow.
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Sidiki Bakaba as |
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Hamed Camara as |
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Philippe Chamelat as |
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Moussa Cissoko as |
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Marthe Mercadier as |
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Ismaila Cissé as |
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Ababacar Sy Cissé as |
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Eloi Coly as |
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Ismaël Lô as |
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Pierre Londiche as |
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Camara Med Dansogho as |
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El Hadg Ndiaye as |
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Thierno Ndiaye Doss as |
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Oumarou Neino as |
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Pierre Orma as |
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Daniel Odimbossoukou as |
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Ibrahim Sane as |
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Jean-Daniel Simon as |
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Gustave Sorgho as |
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Gabriel Zahon as |
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Koffi Saturnin Zinga as |
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Casimir Zoba as |
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John Peterson as |
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Marcel Duplouy as |
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Gerard Maxent as |
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Robert Morgan as |
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Charles Estifian as |
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Éric Dudoit as |
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Laurent Kuntz as |
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Adama Sambou as |
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Innocence Coly as |
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André Massoni as |
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Lamine Mane as |
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Leopoldine Robert as |
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Marie-Ève Duplouy as |
| Writing | Ousmane Sembène | Screenplay |
| Directing | Thierno Faty Sow | Director |
| Directing | Ousmane Sembène | Director |
| Writing | Thierno Faty Sow | Screenplay |
| Production | Ouzid Dahmane | Producer |
| Sound | Hachim Joulak | Sound Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadia Bensekar | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Mustafa Ben Jemja | Producer |
| Camera | Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina | Director of Photography |
| Production | Mamadou Mbengue | Producer |
| Editing | Kahéna Attia | Editor |
| Sound | Ismaël Lô | Music |
| Sound | Rachid Bouafia | Sound Engineer |