Opium and the Stick
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
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Movie Details
- Original Title: L'Opium et le Bâton
- Genres: Action, Drama, War
- Release Date: 1970-09-14
- Runtime: 137 minutes
- Rating: 7.6/10 (8 votes)
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Production Companies: Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)
- Status: Released
- Popularity: 0.1971
- Languages: Arabic, French
Cast & Crew
Sid Ali Kouiret
as Ali
Marie-José Nat
as Farroudja
Mustapha Kateb
as Lazrak
Rouiched
as Tayeb
Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Chaudier
Brahim Hadjadj
as Omar
Abdelhalim Rais
as
Larbi Zekkal
as
Mahieddine Bachtarzi
as
Djelloul Bachdjarah
as
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Opium and the Stick is a Action, Drama, War movie directed by . It was released on 1970-09-14.
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Opium and the Stick has an IMDb rating of 7.6/10 based on 8 votes.
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The total runtime of Opium and the Stick is 137 minutes.
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