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Seen on: 01/27/2011

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Days of Glory (2006)

Directed by Rachid Bouchareb

Drama

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…

Rated R | Length 128 minutes

Actors

Jamel Debbouze | Mélanie Laurent | Thibault de Montalembert | Roschdy Zem | Samy Naceri | Sami Bouajila | Bernard Blancan | Mathieu Simonet | Benoît Giros | Assaad Bouab | Antoine Chappey | Aurélie Eltvedt | Thomas Langmann | Dioucounda Koma | Philippe Beglia | Momo Debbouze | Abdelkim Bouchareb | Abdelhamid Idjaini

Viewing Notes

Indigenes, aka Days of Glory, is a war drama that follows a small group of North African men who enlist in the Free French Army to fight for France during World War II.

The movie follows the men as they fight in North Africa and then in France, battling each other and prejudice and racism from their French compatriots.

A well done, though sometimes slow, movie with some brutal action set pieces, Indigenes does a great job of getting to the heart of the matter: what compels a man to fight for a country that doesn’t even consider him an equal citizen; and what it means to be a patriot, both personally and in the larger sense of the word.

The last encounter the small group of soldiers has with the Germans during the liberation of Alsace is brutally realistic and draws favorable comparisons to the same climactic scene in Saving Private Ryan.

A great double bill followup to Indigenes would be to watch the political drama Battle of Algiers, which chronicles in almost documentary style the Algerian people’s fight to liberate their country from the French in the 1960s.

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