Camp de Thiaroye

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.

Director: Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Cast: Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Philippe Chamelat, Moussa Cissoko, Marthe Mercadier, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé, Eloi Coly

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.