Queye TV Opium and the Stick
Action
Drama
War
Opium and the Stick
L'Opium et le Bâton
1970
2:17
★ 7.8
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.

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

Crew

Ahmed Rachedi

Director

Éric Pluet

Editor

Mouloud Mammeri

Novel

Ahmed Rachedi

Adaptation

Rachid Merabtine

Cinematography

Philippe Arthuys

Original Music Composer

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