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Camp de Thiaroye
SENEGAL · 1988

Camp de Thiaroye

Ousmane Sembène
colonialism military injustice racial discrimination post-war disillusionment cultural identity
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Synopsis

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 fro

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