In 1944, the French army massacred several units of West African conscripts recently returned from the battlefields of Europe. Sembène, who had been drafted into the French army that same year, knew of this event and in 1998 used it as the basis for his sixth feature film. What was essentially a demand by African veterans that they be paid the same wages as their French counterparts led to an attack on soldiers who had only recently been fighting the Nazis in Italy and Germany. In 1944, the French colonial authorities viewed returning African veterans as second class citizens and because the colonial administration was financially bankrupt, found it convenient to refuse their demands. The resulting mutiny by the veterans of Camp Thiaroye led to a full scale artillery attack on the camp.

starring
Ibrahima Sané, Sijiri Bakaba

Directed by Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow
Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia | 1987, Fiction, 152 mins | 35mm, color, Wolof and French, with English subtitles


support : 35 mm
langue : Wolof / français

Interprètes : SANE, Ibrahim (le sergent chef Diatta) / CAMARA, Dansogho Mohamed / SIMON, Jean Daniel (le capitaine Raymond) / ZAHON, Gabriel / ORMA, Pierre / OUEDRAOGO, Gaston / LO, Ismaël (tirailleur harmonica) / MERCADIER, Marthe (la tenancière du bordel) / BAKABA, Sijiri / CAMARA, Hamed / Ismaila Cisse / Sijiri Bakaba / Pierre Londiche / Lamine Mane / Thierno Ndiaye / Jean-Daniel Simon

Réalisateurs / scénario : Ousmane Sembène / Thierno Faty Sow
Directeur de la photographie : LAKHDAR-AMINA, Smaïl
Montage : ATTIA RIVEIL, Kahena
Musique : LO, Ismaël
Production : SNPC (Sénégal) / SATPEC (Tunisie) / ENAPROC (Algérie) / Filmi Domirev (Sénégal)
Nationalités : Sénégal/Algérie/Tunisie



DVD (Potemkine) :
https://store.potemkine.fr/dvd/3760004580928-camp-de-thiaroye-ousmane-sembene-thierno-faty-sow/

CONTACTS (Print Copy / Festivals) :
MINISTRY OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TUNISIA
Rue 2 mars 1934
1006 LAKASBA Tunisie
minculture.info(@)email.ati.tn | www.culture.gov.tn


Festivals : Venise 1988 - Prix spécial du jury
FESPACO 1989 - Prix institut des peuples noirs
Manheim 1987
Amiens 2007 - Hommage Sembène Ousmane
Cannes 2024 -Sélection Cannes Classics 2024 (Une présentation de The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project. Restauré avec la Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation par The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project et Cineteca di Bologna au laboratoire L'Immagine Ritrovata en association avec le ministère tunisien de la Culture et le ministère sénégalais de la Culture et du Patrimoine historique | En présence de Margaret Bodde, directrice générale de The Film Foundation. Remerciements à Mohammed Challouf)



Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- www.festival-cannes.com/f/camp-de-thiaroye/
- https://store.potemkine.fr/dvd/3760004580928-camp-de-thiaroye-ousmane-sembene-thierno-faty-sow/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 11 May 2024