
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

Michel Auclair
Colonel de St-Méran

Sid Ali Kouiret
Si Ahmed

Julien Guiomar
Le général Beaumont

Geneviève Page
Béatrice de St-Mérand

André Thorent
Le général Michon
Jean-Claude Bercq
Le commandant Leteil

Mustapha Kateb
Khédija

André Rouyer
L'aumônier

Jacques François
Serge de la Prévoteraie

Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Unknown

Jacques Castelot
Unknown
Ben Ali Chouerani
Unknown

Gérard Darrieu
Unknown

Hassan El-Hassani
Unknown
Keltoum
Unknown
Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
Unknown

Leila Shenna
Unknown
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