Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
Director: Gianni Amelio
Writer: Gianni Amelio
Director of Photography: Yves Cape
Producer: Bruno Pésery, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz, Riccardo Tozzi, Philippe Carcassonne
Jacques Cormery
Catherine Cormery (1924)
Catherine Cormery (1957)
Professor Bernard
Grandma
Uncle Étienne (1924)
Jacques as a child
Hamoud
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