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
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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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