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Camp Thiaroye is the story of how France turned its guns on the black troops who had just contributed to its rescue from Nazi annihilation. The film deals with such themes as injustice, racism, the abuse of power and monetary imperialism.
The Thiaroye massacre (French: Massacre de Thiaroye; pronounced [tja.ʁwa]) was a massacre of French West African veterans of the 1940 Battle of France, by French forces on the morning of 1 December 1944.
The film depicts the Thiaroye massacre, which happened in Thiaroye, Dakar, in 1944. The film is about the mutiny by and mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on the night of November 30 to December 1, 1944.
The Thiaroye massacre quickly emerged as a memorial site in Senegal. In the immediate postwar period, the memory of Thiaroye remained strong in certain activist circles of the Dakar area, especially those linked to the Rassemblement démocratique africain (RDA), the major Pan-Africanist party created in Bamako in October 1946.
May 19, 2024 · Camp de Thiaroye is the story of a betrayal and an injustice. Thierno Faty Sow and Ousmane Sembène, himself a former tirailleur, depict this tragic episode by taking inspiration from the facts and their own experiences.
Depicting a too-little-known tragedy from the immediate post-WWII period in Senegal, Camp de Thiaroye was banned in France for more than a decade, yet the film endures as one of cinema’s most precise portraits of both war and colonial racism.
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The Camp at Thiaroye: Directed by Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow. With Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé. In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
