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Camp de Thiaroye

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

First showing on network television.
Continuing the Africa on Film season. Troops from French West Africa returning from the battlefields of Europe in 1944 are quartered at Camp de Thiaroye in Senegal, awaiting honourable discharge and back pay. Once there, they find the treatment they receive at the hands of the French officers intolerable.
Made by Ousmane Sembene , the father of African cinema, this powerful indictment of colonial attitudes is based on a true story and aroused initial hostility in France. A Senegalese film with English subtitles.
0 BOOKLET: send cheque/PO for £2.75, payable to BSS, to [address removed] 0 FILMS: pages 33-38

Contributors

Unknown:
Ousmane Sembene
Sergeant Major Diatta:
Ibrahima Sane
Pays:
Sijiri Bakaba
Captain Raymond:
Jean-Daniel Simon
Fusilier from Burkina Faso:
Gustave Sorgho
Fusilier from the Ivory Coast:
Gabriel Zahon
Fusilier from the Congo:
Casimir Zoba Detto Zao
Fusilier from Chad:
Mohamed Camara
Captain Labrousse:
Pierre Orma
Source: Radio Times

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