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.
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
as Slimane
Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)
as Moh
Mohamed Chouikh
as Ali
Malek Kateb
as Brahim
Brahim Hadjadj
as Le Charretier
Djorha Bachene
as Zhera
Jacques Monod
as L'administrateur
Areski Nebti
as
Jean Bouise
as Marc
Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane
as
Mostéfa Stiti
as L'Auxiliaire
Jane Augier
as Hélène
