Camp de Thiaroye
- Released on
- Runtime
- 154 mins
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.
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.
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
- El Hadg Ndiaye
- Thierno Ndiaye Doss
- Oumarou Neino
- Pierre Orma
- Daniel Odimbossoukou
- Ibrahim Sane
- Jean-Daniel Simon
- Gustave Sorgho
- Gabriel Zahon
- Koffi Saturnin Zinga
- Casimir Zoba
- John Peterson
- Marcel Duplouy
- Gerard Maxent
- Robert Morgan
- Charles Estifian
- Éric Dudoit
- Laurent Kuntz
- Adama Sambou
- Innocence Coly
- André Massoni
- Lamine Mane
- Leopoldine Robert
- Marie-Ève Duplouy
Director
- Ousmane Sembène
- Thierno Faty Sow
Producers
- Ouzid Dahmane
- Mustafa Ben Jemja
- Mamadou Mbengue
Screenwriter
- Ousmane Sembène
- Thierno Faty Sow
