

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.
Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
User score
22 votes
Released
September 6, 1988
2h 34m
Arabic, French, German, Wolof