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TMDB Rating 7.5

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Movie Details

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Status: Released

Average Rating: 8

Release Date: Sep 14, 1970

Rating: 1970-09-14

Run Time: 2h 17m

Original Language: French

Website: Link

Production Countries: Algeria

Production Companies: Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)


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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

Mustapha Kateb

Lazrak

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Rouiched

Rouiched

Tayeb

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Sid Ali Kouiret

Sid Ali Kouiret

Ali

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Chaudier

Age : 94 | Popularity : 100%

Marie-José Nat

Marie-José Nat

Farroudja

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Brahim Hadjadj

Brahim Hadjadj

Omar

Age : 62 | Popularity : 17%

Abdelhalim Rais

Abdelhalim Rais

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Larbi Zekkal

Larbi Zekkal

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%


Crew

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