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

    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
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    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Alexandre DesaneFrantz Fanon
    • Frantz FanonSelf (archive footage)
    • Gérard DuboucheDr. Ramée
    • Nicolas DromardThe Hospital Director
    • Omar BoulakirbaMr. Charef
    • Catherine BoskowitzThe Head Nurse
    • Amal KatebJuliette/Cléopâtre
    • Rachid BenallalNouï
    • Chahrazad KracheniJosie Fanon
    • Frédéric RestagnoThe Police Commissioner

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