December
Décembre
Release: 1973-01-02
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 10.0
Drama
War
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.
Production Countries
Algeria
France
Production Companies
Telcia Films
Office des Actualités Algériennes (OAA)
Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)
Cast
Jacques François
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
Leila Shenna
Julien Guiomar
as Le général Beaumont
Geneviève Page
as Béatrice de St-Mérand
Gérard Darrieu
Hassan El-Hassani
Michel Auclair
as Colonel de St-Méran
André Thorent
as Le général Michon
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Sid Ali Kouiret
as Si Ahmed
André Rouyer
as L'aumônier
Jacques Castelot
Mustapha Kateb
as Khédija
