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

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

2025-07-23 | 91 min

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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History Drama Documentary

Cast

Alexandre Desane

Alexandre Desane

Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon

Gérard Dubouche

Gérard Dubouche

Nicolas Dromard

Nicolas Dromard

Omar Boulakirba

Omar Boulakirba

Catherine Boskowitz

Catherine Boskowitz

Amal Kateb

Amal Kateb

Rachid Benallal

Rachid Benallal

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