Indigènes

Credits

Name: Indigènes

Country: Algerien; Marokko; Frankreich; Belgien

Year of publication: 2006

Format: 35 mm, DVD, Blu-ray

Color: color

Language : deutsche Fassung

Duration: 119 Minuten

Direction: Bouchareb, Rachid

Screenplay: Bouchareb, Rachid; Lorelle, Oliver

Camera: Blossier, Patrick; Almeras, Jerome

Actor: Blancan, Bernard; Sami, Bouajila; Debbouze, Jamel; Naceri, Sami; Zem, Roschdy

Abstract

1943. They had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army, along with hundreds of thousends of other "indigenous soldiers", to liberate the "fatherland" from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy, Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.