- Historical film in four scenes which retrace the returns, the progress and the outcome of the war of liberation in Algeria. The first painting, "The land was thirsty" describes aspects of injustice and colonial oppression. The second "The Paths to the Prison" recounts the sufferings of the people engaged in combat. The last two are the stories of two lives.—AfricaStarz
- "La Nuit a Peur du Soleil" is a historical film directed by Mustapha Badie, in four scenes which retraces the antecedents, the progress and the outcome of the war of national liberation, released in 1965. The first painting, "The Land Was Thirsty" depicts aspects of injustice and colonial oppression. The second "The Paths to the Prison" recounts the sufferings of the people engaged in combat. The last two are the stories of two lives. Shot in 35 m/m, "La Nuit a Peur du Soleil" is a film whose grandiloquent title may have made you smile at the time, but which today deserves to be revisited. It tells in fact, in a style more influenced by (good) Egyptian cinema than by the Hollywood-Soviet mixture specific to the first revolutionary cinematographic films, the saga of families caught in the decades which preceded the independence of Algeria. To do this, Mustapha Badie brought together in his cast the most prestigious actors of the time including Mustapha Kateb, Taha El Amiri, Agoumi, Nouria and Djamila. Badie's film impresses today with its class and technical level. The film was shown in a few theaters, then on television, but it was shunned by the emerging film industry. In the struggle between cinema and the RTA since then, Algerian television had just scored a major point by planting a major flag on the back of a cinema condemned to precariousness.—RTA
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