During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi opp...
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Algeria, 1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a coda year later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, their motherland. We follow Saïd, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzled sergeant, Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up for his Arab troops; Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in love with a French woman who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, a budding intellectual with a keen sene of injustice. The men fight with courage againt a backdrop of small and large indignities: French soldier get better food, time for leave, and promotion. Is the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity hollow?
