Opium and the Stick
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
Cast
Images
Similar movies
The Man Who Returned from the Heat
January 1, 1972The Snows of Kilimanjaro
October 8, 1952Fort Saganne
May 11, 1984The Ghost and the Darkness
October 11, 1996Once Upon a Time in China III
February 11, 1993The Jewel of the Nile
August 1, 1985Samba Traoré
March 3, 1993The Last Adventure
April 12, 1967The New World
December 25, 2005Lost in Africa
January 10, 1994Intimate Enemies
October 3, 2007Armour of God
August 16, 1986Flatfoot in Africa
March 22, 1978The Lion King 1½
February 6, 2004Cobra Verde
December 3, 1987Bloody Beans
November 24, 2013Rhino
November 21, 1988Delwende
November 14, 2005The Declaration of Independence
November 26, 1938Kanga
August 21, 1992