Indig?nes (Days of glory) is the Algeria?s official 2007 Oscar submission for best foreign language film. The movie tells the little-known story of African soldiers who fought to liberate France in World War II.
Rated R for war violence and language. In Arabic and French with subtitles.
Synopsis:
A large number of indig?nes peoples of Africa (Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccan Goumiers) were enrolled in the French First Army of the Free French Forces, formed to liberate France after the Nazi occupation in World War II. The film portrays the recruitment of these soldiers and their participation in the campaigns in Italy and southern France. The army had been recruited in Africa in French colonies outside the control of the Vichy regime which collaborated with German commissioners.
Four Indig?nes in a mobile corps with a reputation for endurance and courage in close combat are sent to the front line, each with a different personal purpose as they fight their way through the Italian Campaign (the name of Allied operations in and around Italy) and on to Operation Dragoon (the Allied invasion of southern France) to liberate France. One seeks booty, one has joined the army to escape poverty in hopes that it will be his family, one wants to marry and settle in France while the other is fighting in the hope of equality and recognition of the rights of the colonised Algerians. They encounter only discrimination in the army.
Donation: $10 ($5 students)
Location: Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
For more information:
Phone: 858-254-2253
or
Visit: afsandiego.org
or
Email:
For more information about the film see: wikipedia.org/indigenes
Rated R for war violence and language. In Arabic and French with subtitles.
Synopsis:
A large number of indig?nes peoples of Africa (Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccan Goumiers) were enrolled in the French First Army of the Free French Forces, formed to liberate France after the Nazi occupation in World War II. The film portrays the recruitment of these soldiers and their participation in the campaigns in Italy and southern France. The army had been recruited in Africa in French colonies outside the control of the Vichy regime which collaborated with German commissioners.
Four Indig?nes in a mobile corps with a reputation for endurance and courage in close combat are sent to the front line, each with a different personal purpose as they fight their way through the Italian Campaign (the name of Allied operations in and around Italy) and on to Operation Dragoon (the Allied invasion of southern France) to liberate France. One seeks booty, one has joined the army to escape poverty in hopes that it will be his family, one wants to marry and settle in France while the other is fighting in the hope of equality and recognition of the rights of the colonised Algerians. They encounter only discrimination in the army.
Donation: $10 ($5 students)
Location: Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla
For more information:
Phone: 858-254-2253
or
Visit: afsandiego.org
or
Email:
For more information about the film see: wikipedia.org/indigenes
