Camp de Thiaroye

1987 · Directed by Ousmane Sembène · 147 min · drama film, war film

★ 7.5/10 · 22 ratings on TMDB

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.