Camp de Thiaroye

Sep 6, 1988

2h 34m

★ 7.4

Overview

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Films Kajoor

ENAPROC - Entreprise Nationale de Production Cinématographique

Films Domireew

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Cast

Sidiki Bakaba

Hamed Camara

Philippe Chamelat

Moussa Cissoko

Marthe Mercadier

Ismaila Cissé

Ababacar Sy Cissé

Eloi Coly

Ismaël Lô

Pierre Londiche

Camara Med Dansogho

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