The Sun Assassinated
OT: Le soleil assassiné
Abdelkrim Bahloul | France, 2002
Fiction Feature | FF2003
Story
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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Le soleil assassiné
Fiction Feature
French
Offizielles Programm | FF2003
France
2002
90 min
OV
Abdelkrim Bahloul
Abdelkrim Bahloul
Charles Berling, Ouassini Embarek, Medhi Dehbi, Abbes Zahmani
Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Charlie van Damme
Pierre Didier, Jacques Witta
Jean-Marie Senia, Souad Massi
Bruno Beauge, Taoufik Behi
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