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The Sun Assassinated (2004)

★ 5.3/10 85 min Algeria, Belgium, France, Tunisia French
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Description

The poet Jean Sénac, also a radio host, chose to stay in Algeria after his country's independence in 1962. Ten years later, a protester and libertarian, he was monitored by the regime's police. His poems attract a popular audience and his show is a real success with young people. Also, when Hamid and Belkacem, two students, learn that the play they wrote and presented at the first national Algerian theater festival is downgraded under the pretext that they performed it in French, their pain will be alleviated by the presence behind the scenes by Jean Sénac who congratulates them. The latter will become close friends of the poet and witness his fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth. A fight which would lead Sénac to martyrdom: one night in August 1973, he was assassinated in the cellar which served as his apartment. Hamid is accused of the murder.

Top Cast

Charles Berling
Charles Berling Jean Sénac
Ouassini Embarek
Ouassini Embarek Belkacem
Mehdi Dehbi
Mehdi Dehbi Hamid
Lotfi Abdelli
Lotfi Abdelli Zine
Abbes Zahmani
Abbes Zahmani Othmane
Alexis Loret
Alexis Loret Belkacem
Julia Maraval
Julia Maraval Keltoum
Clotilde de Bayser
Clotilde de Bayser Nathalie

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