53 minutes that'll wreck your whole day—in the best way.
An Algerian peasant (fellah), crushed by the soldiers of the French colonial army, decides to resist. His young wife finds herself, despite herself, also enlisted in the Algerian resistance to flee the atrocities of harsh colonial persecution.
Direction
Merbah's claustrophobic framing makes oppression visceral.
Acting
Adjouri's wordless resistance speaks volumes.
Director
Mohamed Lamine Merbah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the still-raw aftermath of Algerian independence, this emerged when France finally allowed its colonial crimes to be screened back home.
Director Mohamed Lamine Merbah was assassinated by Islamist militants in 1993; much of his work was presumed lost until recent restorations.
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