Camp de Thiaroye

Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Written by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.

Cast

Sidiki Bakaba

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Hamed Camara

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Philippe Chamelat

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Moussa Cissoko

Marthe Mercadier

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Ismaila Cissé

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Ababacar Sy Cissé

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Eloi Coly

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Ismaël Lô

Pierre Londiche

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Camara Med Dansogho

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El Hadg Ndiaye