Days of Glory DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb
Produced in 2006
Main Language - French
Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film, African Film
Cast
Samy Naceri, Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Genres
Contemporary Political Film • Contemporary War Films • Contemporary Blu-rays • European Film • French Film • African Film • Blu-ray
MovieMail's Review
This immensely powerful combat drama is, like all great war films, as much about politics and injustice as it is about excitement and explosions. Indigènes (meaning ‘natives’) tells the story of a ‘Band of (Muslim) Brothers’, North African Arabs drafted as infantry to help end the Nazi tyranny. In telling of the cruel discrimination these ‘colonial subjects’ suffered, the director references agit-prop classics of the past– the onboard mutiny over tomatoes is pure Battleship Potemkin while traces of the great Battle of Algiers, a previous attempt at documenting those Frantz Fanon called ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ are even harder to ignore. Indigènes is marked by beautiful symbolism: aerial shots of landscapes swathed in shadows that slowly clear; a farm where the final action occurs is a freezing place of death. A colonel tells the unit “All of France will watch and remember you” yet for years French governments froze the pensions of these men, a disgrace only reversed when Indigènes was screened in France and only acknowledged on this DVD cut of the film.
Film Description
Days of Glory shows WWII through the eyes of four North African soldiers fighting for the French army.
It packs all the punch of a great war film but Bouchareb also used it to address the issue that, in 1952, France voted to cease pension payments to soldiers from countries no longer under French rule. In 2006, following a screening of this film, Jacques Chirac reinstituted their pensions.
DVD Details
Certificate: 15
Publisher: IN2FILM
Length: 118 mins
Region: 2
Cat No: I2F3070
Format: DVD Colour
Subtitles: Subtitles (English)
DVD Extras
- Bonus footage
- Trailers
- 'Making of' documentary
- Interviews (Q&
- A With Rachid Bouchareb (Director))
- Other documentaries ('Jamel
- Rachid
- Roshdy
- Samy... Infantrymen')
- Introduction by Rachid Bouchareb
- Historical Background
- The Story of the 'Indigenes'
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