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CAMP DE THIAROYE
CAMP DE THIAROYE


 
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Following their honorable service in World War II, a group of black soldiers from all over West Africa report to a transit camp in Dakar. There, they are treated little better than prisoners and denied the back pay they were promised, leading to a mutiny in which they take their French commanding officer hostage. A devastating account of colonial injustice. "Sembene and Sow have made what is not only a humane, passionate film, but an honest and vital memorial to those men who died, after the war, at Camp Thiaroye" (Tom Charity, Time Out Film Guide). In Wolof and French with optional English subtitles.

Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow---Senegal/Algeria/Tunisia---152 mins.