The Outlaws
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1hr
37mins
Directed by
Tewfik Farès,
Starring
Sid Ahmed Agoumi,
Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine),
Malek Kateb,
Brahim Hadjadj
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In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.