Camp de Thiaroye

  • Camp de Thiaroye
Genre : War
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1988
Format : Feature
Running time : 148 (in minutes)

In 1944, the French army massacred several units of West African conscripts recently returned from the battlefields of Europe. Sembène, who had been drafted into the French army that same year, knew of this event and in 1998 used it as the basis for his sixth feature film. What was essentially a demand by African veterans that they be paid the same wages as their French counterparts led to an attack on soldiers who had only recently been fighting the Nazis in Italy and Germany. In 1944, the French colonial authorities viewed returning African veterans as second class citizens and because the colonial administration was financially bankrupt, found it convenient to refuse their demands. The resulting mutiny by the veterans of Camp Thiaroye led to a full scale artillery attack on the camp. Directed by Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow Senegal 1987, 35mm, color, 152 min. With Ibrahima Sané, Sijiri Bakaba Wolof and French, with English subtitles

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