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Director:
Alain Tasma
Writers:
Dalila Kerchouche (writer)
Arnaud Malherbe (writer)
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Release Date:
10 October 2006 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
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User Comments:
A French Milestone & I am ashamed of my country (DVD) more (2 total)

Cast

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Smaïn ... Saïd
Leïla Bekhti ... Leïla

Frédéric Pierrot ... Capitaine Robert
Baya Belal ... Aïcha
Samy Seghir ... Kader
Imane Benrahou-Chenu ... Sarah
Marie-Françoise Audollent ... Juliette
Jacques Brunet ... Lucien
Carim Messalti ... Youssef
Fayçal Safi ... Moktar
Chérine Amar ... Fatima
Emin Barama ... Rabah
Benhaïssa Ahouari ... Vieil Harki (as Benaïssa Ahouari)
Kamel El Arn Raoui ... Jeune Harki

Abel Jafri ... Harki 1
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Country:
France
Language:
French | Arabic
Color:
Color
Company:
France 2 (FR2) more

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A French Milestone & I am ashamed of my country (DVD), 19 May 2008
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Author: XavissimuS from PariS

I knew that the Harkis shared a painful history because beings Arabs fighting for France, they are viewed as traitors by nationalist Arabs and as invaders by racist French.

But I never guessed (or be taught) that my own country, which proudly parades as cradle of human rights, have treated those families like animals! Parked in far-away country camps, forced labors, psychiatric asylum to enforce order, family life crushed since birth (babies were given French names chosen by the camp leader!). And it didn't happen in the 20s or 30 but in the 70s!

The DVD is a very moving testimony, as it offers a documentary for historic events and the movie for a drama point of view. The script is beautifully written because the harki family rotates between a terrorized and blind father and a strong and rebel daughter.

Those movie is a french "Schindler List" for the emotional level and would have deserved the same recognition and awards.

Sadly, the harki doom lasts because this movie didn't get a theater release but a TV broadcasting, and thus their fate missed a large audience and they finally stayed in shadows.

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