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SENEGAL · 1988
Camp de Thiaroye
Synopsis
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock fro
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colonialism · military injustice · racial discrimination · post-war disillusionment · cultural identity
