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Music by
  
Ismaël Lô

Release date
  
1988 (1988)

Initial release
  
5 September 1990 (NY)

7.8/10
IMDb

Cinematography
  
Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina

Country
  
Senegal

Music director
  
Ismaël Lô


Directors
  
Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Cast
  
Sidiki Bakaba, Ismaila Cissé, Eloi Coly, Moussa Cissoko

Awards
  
Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion

Screenplay
  
Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow

Similar
  
Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Colonialism movies, Dramas

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Camp de Thiaroye (also known as The Camp at Thiaroye) is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow.

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The film entered the competition at the 45th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Special Jury Prize. The film depicts the Thiaroye Massacre, which happened in Thiaroye, Dakar, in 1944.

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The film is about the mutiny by and mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on the night of November 30 to December 1, 1944. West African conscripts were protesting poor conditions and revocation of pay at the Thiaroye camp. The film is a criticism and indictment of the colonial system.

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The film documents the events leading up to the Thiaroye massacre, as well as the massacre itself. The film received positive reviews at the time it was released and continues to be heralded by scholars as an important historical documentation of the Thiaroye massacre.

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The film was banned in France for a decade and censored in Senegal as well.

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Cast

  • Sidiki Bakaba
  • Hamed Camara
  • Philippe Chamelat
  • Marthe Mercadier

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    References

    Camp de Thiaroye Wikipedia


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