Camp de Thiaroye
Plot
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.
At a glance
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Genre
- War, Drama
- Original language
- French
- Production countries
- Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia
- Director
- Thierno Faty Sow, Ousmane Sembène
- Cast
- Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Philippe Chamelat, Moussa Cissoko, Marthe Mercadier