Fatima, l'Algérienne de Dakar (2004)
17 Jun 2005 • Drama • 1h 29m
In the summer of 1957, during the Algerian war, the Senegalese sub-lieutenant Souleymane Fall discovers among the bushes a young girl, Fatima, stunned, her eyes bulging with fear. He rapes her. This misfortune gives birth to a son with very black skin. A few years later, in Senegal, Souleyman's father, a practicing Muslim, demands that his son find and marry Fatima, "his sister in Islam".
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French, Arabic, Wolof
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Mauritania, Tunisia, France, Senegal
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