The Sun Assassinated

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Following Algeria’s independence from its colonial rulers in 1962, author Jean Sénac (Charles Berling), a gay Christian writing in French, is seen by the Islamic fundamentalists as the epitome of a “foreigner”. Abdelkrim Bahloul’s film tells of the last year of Sénac’s life, and his friendship with young writers, Belkacem (Ouassini Embarek) and Hamid (Mehdi Dehbi), whose play is rejected by the national theatre festival because it is in French. In September 1973, Sénac, who sometimes signed his name with the symbol of the sun, was stabbed to death in his basement flat in Algiers. His murderers were never caught.

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