Camp de Thiaroye

Winner of the 1988 Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1988, and featuring brilliant performances from the excellent cast, this uncompromising historical epic serves as an indictment of the French colonial rule.

In Senegal, in 1944, the Thiaroye marshalling camp, on the outskirts of Dakar, welcomed African infantry soldiers, who valiantly fought in Europe against the Nazis and who now must be paid and repatriated to their countries. They soon realise that they will be paid much less than they were promised. The men rebel but this will not stop the massacre that awaits them.