The Camp at Thiaroye represents a development in the late Ousmane Sembène’s approach to cinema. The film, which Sembène wrote and directed with Thierno Faty Sow, is a forceful epic political drama, based on real events and on the directors’ own experiences. The story deals with injustice, hypocrisy, colonialism, and racism, and culminates in a massacre. The Camp at Thiaroye shows the resumption of white oppression when a regiment of West African Armed Forces soldiers returns to an army post in Senegal from the European warfront where they faced death every day, only now to face indignity and the racism of the French nationals they helped liberate from fascism.

Durée: 153

Langue : German, French, Wolof, English

Genre : Fiction

Director Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Producer Mustafa Ben Jemja, Ouzid Dahmane, Mamadou Mbengue

Screenwriter Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Cinematographer Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina

Editor Kahéna Attia

Sound Ismaël Lô

Music Ismaël Lô

Color Color