Les sacrifiés (1983)

In 1955, Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities. At the age of 27, he landed in the Algerian shantytown of Nanterre in France. At first, he was questioned by FLN militants. He then became a driver on anti-MNA expeditions. Accepting increasingly dangerous missions, he was imprisoned by the French police. When he was released, he was reunited with his fellow fighters, and once again subjected to interrogation and special treatment by the police. When joy broke out among FLN militants at the announcement of the signing of the Evian agreements, Mahmoud remained alone, frozen in an attitude of refusal, walled in by his madness. Algeria had just won its independence.