December

Décembre

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.

Dirección

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Guion

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Música

Philippe Arthuys

Estado

Estrenada

Estreno

02/01/1973

Idioma original

Francés