December

movie

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.

Cast & crew

Jacques François · Geneviève Page · Mustapha Kateb · André Thorent · Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina · Julien Guiomar · Sid Ali Kouiret · André Rouyer · Michel Auclair · Jean-Pierre Castaldi · Jean-Claude Bercq

Studios & networks

Office des Actualités Algériennes (OAA) · Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC) · Telcia Films