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Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 30, 2001

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

100%

Original Title

Frantz Fanon, Une Vie, Un Combat, Une Oeuvre

Production Companies

Les Productions de la Lanterne

Director

Cheikh Djemaï

Description

It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black people. It is the evocation of a man of reflection who refuses to close his eyes, of the man of action who devoted himself body and soul to the liberation struggle of the Algerian people and who will become, through his political commitment, his fight, and his writings, one of the figures of the anti-colonialist struggle. Before being killed at the age of 36 by leukemia, on December 6, 1961. His body was buried by Chadli Bendjedid, who later became Algerian president, in Algeria, at the Chouhadas cemetery (cemetery of war martyrs ). With him, three of his works are buried: “Black Skin, White Masks”, “L’An V De La Révolution Algérien” and “The Wretched of the Earth”.