The Outlaws

7.7

Algeria

Drama Western

97 min

1969

Sid Ahmed Agoumi Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane Jean Bouise Areski Nebti Jacques Monod Djohra Bachene Brahim Hadjadj Malek Kateb Mohamed Chouikh Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine) Mostéfa Stiti

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.