True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

02/18/2024

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1hr 31min

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History

,Drama

,Documentary

STORY

1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algies School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Alexandre Desane
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Gérard Dubouche
  • Nicolas Dromard
  • Omar Boulakirba

    Directors

  • Abdenour Zahzah
  • Assia Benaissa

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Atlas Film Production
  • Shellac Sud
  • CADC

    Production Countries

  • Algeria
  • France

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
  • French