In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.


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Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Slimane

Malek Kateb
Brahim

Brahim Hadjadj
Le Charretier

Djohra Bachene
Zhera

Jacques Monod
L'administrateur

Jean Bouise
Marc