In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Michel Auclair
as Colonel de St-Méran
Sid Ali Kouiret
as Si Ahmed
Julien Guiomar
as Le général Beaumont
Geneviève Page
as Béatrice de St-Mérand
André Thorent
as Le général Michon
Jean-Claude Bercq
as Le commandant Leteil
Mustapha Kateb
as Khédija
André Rouyer
as L'aumônier
Jacques François
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
as
Jacques Castelot
as
Ben Ali Chouerani
as
