Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
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.
- Date of release
- 1988-09-06
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 2h 34m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Director
- Thierno Faty Sow, Ousmane Sembène
Casting
- Sidiki Bakaba
- Hamed Camara
- Philippe Chamelat
- Moussa Cissoko
- Marthe Mercadier
- Ismaila Cissé
- Ababacar Sy Cissé
- Eloi Coly
- Ismaël Lô
- Pierre Londiche
- Camara Med Dansogho
- El Hadg Ndiaye
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