Days of Glory (French: Indigènes - "Natives"; Arabic: بلديون) is a 2006 French film directed by French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb. The cast includes Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Mélanie Laurent and Bernard Blancan.
The film deals primarily with the discriminatory treatment of colonial North Africans by the white French. This issue led to a change in the French government's policy 60 years later.
The film begins in Nort...
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Days of Glory (French: Indigènes - "Natives"; Arabic: بلديون) is a 2006 French film directed by French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb. The cast includes Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Mélanie Laurent and Bernard Blancan.
The film deals primarily with the discriminatory treatment of colonial North Africans by the white French. This issue led to a change in the French government's policy 60 years later.
The film begins in North Africa where large numbers of indigènes (French Algerian Tirailleurs as well as Tunisian or Moroccan Goumiers) have been recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces, that has been formed to liberate France of the Nazi occupation in World War II.
Saïd, an impoverished goat herder, joins the 7th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment. With him are several other Berber men, including Yassir, who is seeking booty so that he can return home and his brother can marry; Messaoud, who wants to marry and settle in France; and literate...
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