In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the children of martyrs would obtain everything after independence. He sets up a whole plan to get rid of a certain François, enemy of his country, while his father, Saddek, abandoned him with his mother and brothers. Through this fiction, the film looks at the life and visions of little Algerians during the War of National Liberation. Karim Traïdia looks back on his own childhood during the Algerian war (1945-1962). On a humorous note, it tells the adventures of a young child and his innocent friends against the backdrop of a raging merciless war.
Karim Traïdia
Writer, Director
Malik Bekhoucha
Bachir
Hassan Kachach
Saddek
Mouni Bouallam
La Mère
Fatima Ben Saïdane
La Grand Mère
Lucien Guignard
François
Fethi Nouri
Le Voisin
Mohamed Tahar Zaoui
Tchitcha
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Defiance68%
The Outpost68%
The Last Rifleman66%
The Patriot72%
The Woman King75%
The Great War65%
The Way Back70%
Field of Lost Shoes61%
12 Mighty Orphans71%
Walking with the Enemy62%
Escape from Pretoria71%
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher61%
Seven Years in Tibet71%
Resistance69%
Glory74%
Empire of the Sun75%
Mary62%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas78%
Little Boy72%
