20 Dec 1985
Out of Africa
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Opium and the Stick
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
Top Billed Cast
Sid Ali Kouiret Ali
Marie-José Nat Farroudja
Mustapha Kateb Lazrak
Rouiched Tayeb
Jean-Louis Trintignant Chaudier
Brahim Hadjadj Omar
Abdelhalim Rais 
Larbi Zekkal 
Mahieddine Bachtarzi 
Djelloul Bachdjarah 
Kaci Ksentini 
Ahmed Kadri (Krikèche) Jean-Claude Bercq Delécluze
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