True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 poster

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956

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Abdenour Zahzah

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Arabic

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1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algies School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.

Cast

Alexandre Desane Alexandre Desane Frantz FanonFrantz Fanon Frantz Fanon Self (archive footage)Gérard Dubouche Gérard Dubouche Dr. RaméeNicolas Dromard Nicolas Dromard The Hospital DirectorOmar Boulakirba Omar Boulakirba Mr. CharefCatherine Boskowitz Catherine Boskowitz The Head NurseAmal Kateb Amal Kateb Juliette/CléopâtreRachid Benallal Rachid Benallal NouïChahrazad Kracheni Chahrazad Kracheni Josie FanonFrédéric Restagno Frédéric Restagno The Police Commissioner
Abdelkader Affak The Survivor
Tahar Benayachi The Locked Up

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