Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- French
- Country
- Algeria, Belgium, France, Morocco
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten...
- army
- world war ii
- algerian
- infantry
- northern africa
- institutional discrimination
- french algerian
- french algeria
- appreciative
The bill
- Bernard Blancan — Sergent Roger Martinez
- Mathieu Simonet — Caporal Leroux
- Assaad Bouab — Larbi
- Benoît Giros — Capitaine Durieux
- Mélanie Laurent — Margueritte village Vosges
- Antoine Chappey — Le colonel
- Aurélie Eltvedt — Irène
- Thomas Langmann — Le journaliste
- Thibault de Montalembert — Capitaine Martin
- Diouc Koma — Touré
- Philippe Beglia — Rambert
- Directed
- Rachid Bouchareb
- Written
- Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 410 ratings
- Studio
- Tessalit Productions, France 2 Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal, SCOPE Invest, Tassili Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
