Frantz Fanon at 100
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
1h 31m
Directed by Abdenour Zahzah • 2024 • France, Algeria
Starring Alexandre Desane, Gérard Dubouche, Nicolas Dromard
Before he inspired anticolonial resistance movements around the world with his revolutionary writings, Frantz Fanon made his mark as the head of a psychiatric unit at a hospital in the Algerian city of Blida, where he worked to radically transform the racist, inhumane treatment practices of the white, French doctors. Through a series of powerful vignettes, shot on location in striking monochrome, this absorbing and thought-provoking historical drama illuminates a formative but little-known aspect of Fanon’s pioneering work as well as the psychological trauma of colonialist dehumanization.
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