Camp de Thiaroye

2h 34min

War

Drama

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.

Production Companies

Films Kajoor

ENAPROC - Entreprise Nationale de Production Cinématographique

Films Domireew

Release date

6th Sep 1988

Status

Released

Spoken languages

العربية, Deutsch, Français, Wolof