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FRENCH FILM SERIES
Co-curated by Professor Angela Dalle Vacche, LCC and Professor Qi Wang, LCC
"Days of Glory"
(Indigenes)
Nominated for the 2007 Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Film and
winner of Best Actor at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, this amazing film shows World War II through the eyes of four North African soldiers fighting for the French army.
Franco-Algerian Director Bouchareb uses this film to reveal the racism these soldiers had to endure. We are told at the film's conclusion that, in 1952, France voted to cease pension payments to African soldiers from countries no longer under French colonialism. In 2006, following a screening of this film, President Jacques Chirac reinstituted the African veterans’ pensions. Watch this film and learn about this little known page of WWII history.
This film series is made possible by UniversCiné and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York
