Camp de Thiaroye(1988)

movie - first aired/released 1988-09-06 - 154 min - audience 7.5

War, Drama

Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

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.