Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker’s father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to his children, to start telling his story. Several years later, the father and daughter finally make the journey to Mansourah, his native village: seeing his house, meeting other men who experienced the same heartbreak. Little by little, the film reveals what Malek, like many others, has long kept quiet about.
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By meeting his former comrades in combat, the film follows the journey of Yves Mathieu, anti-colonia...
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An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: hi...
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