City: Mumbai
Location: Prithvi House, Juhu
Date: Wed, 2013/10/16 – 7:00pm
Category: Film screening
In partnership with Prithvi Theatre and Institut Français
From literature to film @ Prithvi
La Trahison, by Philippe Faucon (80’)
War story The Betrayal takes a timely look back to the 1960 Algerian war of independence. The title refers to the divided loyalties that threaten to tear apart a French army unit made up of mutually suspicious European colonizers and Algerian Arabs. A squadron of the French army is led by Lieutenant Roque. Nominally, everyone is French, in practice, however, the four Arabs in the unit, led by Taieb who act as liaisons between the army and the hostile locals, are doubtful President De Gaulle’s government