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The Outlaws

The Outlaws

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1969

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Drama, Western

User Score

80%

Original Title

Les Hors-La-Loi

Production Companies

O.N.C.I.C.

Director

Tewfik Farès

Description

In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.