71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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La question

Laurent Heynemann
France
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Algeria in 1957. Henry Charlègue, director of Alger Démocratique, the only newspaper that opens its columns to the Algerian national opinion, is forced to go underground after the closure of his newspaper. One morning, when he goes to the house of his friend Maurice Oudinot, arrested the day before, he falls into a trap and is caught. He is taken to El Biar, a building transformed into a prison, where he will be interrogated to begin a long stay in the prison.

Director
Laurent Heynemann (France)
Screenplay
Laurent Heynemann, Claude Veillot
Plot
Henri Alleg (novela)
Photography
Alain Levent
Edition
Ariane Boeglin, Armand Psenny
Music
Antoine Duhamel
Cast
Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, François Dyrek, Christian Rist, Françoise Thuries
Running Time
112 m.
Country
France
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