True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algies School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.
- Genre: History, Drama, Documentary
- Studio: Atlas Film Production, Shellac Sud, CADC
- Keyword: biography, algeria, struggle for independence, frantz fanon, francafrique, panafricanism, djazair, anti-imperialism, occidental opression
- Cast: Alexandre Desane, Frantz Fanon, Gérard Dubouche, Nicolas Dromard, Omar Boulakirba, Catherine Boskowitz