Camp de Thiaroye
1988 · 2h 34m · Drama, War · Algeria, Senegal
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.
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africaautobiographysenegalworld war ii
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