

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. âLiving the colonial condition,â confided Tewfik FarĂšs, âis something! Itâs not sociologically or historically speaking. Itâs life. And I think thatâs all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.

Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Slimane

Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)
Moh

Mohamed Chouikh
Ali

Malek Kateb
Brahim

Brahim Hadjadj
Le Charretier

Djohra Bachene
Zhera

Jacques Monod
L'administrateur

Areski Nebti

Jean Bouise
Marc

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Mostéfa Stiti
L'Auxiliaire
Jane Augier
HélÚne
Nourredine Agoulmine
Salima
Marien Bengharbi
Tayeb Abou El Hassan
José Villa
Yannick Brouville
Kaci Ouchen
Ali Doumi