Opium and the Stick

Year: 1969

Runtime: 137 mins

Language: French

Director: Ahmed Rachedi

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In 1950 a Kabylian village under French occupation. Bachir returns from Algiers to find brothers divided: Ali joins the ALN, while elder Belaïd supports French Algeria. Bachir confronts a French army spreading disinformation as villagers rally to the FLN, homes burning. The film adapts Mouloud Mammeri’s novel Opium and Stick, dubbed in Tamazight.

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