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In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

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    • Author: Fenrinos
    Camp de Thiaroye by Senegalese Director is a war movie without a war. Set on an army post in Senegal towards the final days of WWII, it follows a regiment of the French West African Armed Forces who have returned from a tour of duty in Europe. The story is an allegory for the resistance movement to colonialism that sprung up after the war and led to the end of colonialism. Often bloody, it captures the relationship between American soldiers stationed in Dakar, French commanding officers and the French West Africans while touching on issues of racism, inferiority complex and black on black relationships. Never one to lead the audience, Sembene takes his time staging scenes often with beautiful framing that eats up the edges of the screen. It may leisure and some scenes are didactic but it never wavers in its utmost honesty and its eventual humanism resulting from a cataclysmic ending that is both gripping that echoes the refrain that maybe we are all crazy. It is one of the better movies of this master of cinema and in this reviewer's opinion, a 10/10.
  • Cast overview, first billed only:
    Sidiki Bakaba Sidiki Bakaba
    Hamed Camara Hamed Camara
    Ismaila Cissé Ismaila Cissé
    Ababacar Sy Cissé Ababacar Sy Cissé
    Moussa Cissoko Moussa Cissoko
    Eloi Coly Eloi Coly
    Ismaël Lô Ismaël Lô - (as Ismaila Lo)
    Pierre Londiche Pierre Londiche
    Camara Med Dansogho Camara Med Dansogho
    El Hadg Ndiaye El Hadg Ndiaye
    Thierno Ndiaye Doss Thierno Ndiaye Doss - (as Thierno Ndiaye)
    Oumarou Neino Oumarou Neino
    Pierre Orma Pierre Orma
    Daniel Odimbossoukou Daniel Odimbossoukou
    Ibrahim Sane Ibrahim Sane
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