December

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.

Cast

Michel Auclair

Michel Auclair

as Colonel de St-Méran

Sid Ali Kouiret

Sid Ali Kouiret

as Si Ahmed

Julien Guiomar

Julien Guiomar

as Le général Beaumont

Geneviève Page

Geneviève Page

as Béatrice de St-Mérand

André Thorent

André Thorent

as Le général Michon

Jean-Claude Bercq

Jean-Claude Bercq

as Le commandant Leteil

Mustapha Kateb

Mustapha Kateb

as Khédija

André Rouyer

André Rouyer

as L'aumônier

Jacques François

Jacques François

as Serge de la Prévoteraie

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

as

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