Opium and the Stick

Synopsis

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.

Main Cast

Mustapha Kateb

Lazrak

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Rouiched

Tayeb

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sid Ali Kouiret

Ali

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Chaudier

Age : 93 | Popularity : 22%

Marie-José Nat

Farroudja

Age : 79 | Popularity : 13%

Brahim Hadjadj

Omar

Age : 62 | Popularity : 3%

Abdelhalim Rais

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Larbi Zekkal

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ahmed Rachedi
Writing	Adaptation	Ahmed Rachedi
	Novel	Mouloud Mammeri
Crew	Cinematography	Rachid Merabtine
Editing	Editor	Éric Pluet
Department	Role	Name

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