“I felt the story itself repeated”: You have to see a biographical cinema on a revolutionary psychiatrist Franz Fannon

After Nèg Maron (2005), Rose and Soldier (2014) and Le Gang des Antillelis (2016), Jean-Claude Barne returns to the realization with Fanon, Biopik, dedicated to the Martinic Psychiatrist and the Revolutionary Franz Fannon. Alexander Buayer plays the role of the title and is surrounded by déborah françois, Stanislas Merhar, Arthur Dupont, Mehdi Senoussi, Olivier Gourmet, Salem Kali and Salomé Partouche.

The film opens in 1953, when Franz Fannon, a French psychiatrist from Martinica, was appointed as the head of service at the Algerian Blade Mental Hospital. Its innovative methods are radically opposed to colleagues, in a colonial context that is marked by deep tension. It is at the heart of the Algerian war that the film paints a portrait of a man who fired a gunshot with firearms with a gunshot gun.

Who was Franz Fannon?

The main figure in the decollonization movements, Franz Fannon, the psychiatrist, the militar and the essential thinker, left a lasting print in the fight against racism and systematic injustice. His journey continues to inspire many modern quarrels.

In 1953, he took advantage of Blida Hospital’s psychiatric service, introduced humanistic and social approaches that came into force with fierce treatment. But he quickly enrolled in the reality of the Algerian War: the trauma of Algerian patients and the torture performed by the French army lead him to radical consciousness.

He was firmly committed, Fannion joins the national liberation front (FLN), leaves his post and becomes a diplomat of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA). His obligation is also reflected in his writings: “The Year of the Algerian Revolution V” (1959) and especially the “devastating” of the earth (1961), who claims Jean-Paul Sartre, where he explores the psychological effects of colonialism and calls for rebellion.

Leukemia, a Leukemia, Franz Fannon died in 1961 in Washington, at the age of 36, a year before Algeria’s independence, which he defended so many. “I think I will never see independence “He said in the movie. His body is transformed into Algeria and buried in accordance with his wishes.

Why is the movie about Fanon today?

Jean-Claude Bara Discover Frantz Fanon’s works on 15. The future director is growing in Argentina, Val D’Anis. It has popular series such as the secrets of the West or Bonana, but the lack of feeling. It explains in the press team: “I was quickly disappointed with the gap between the stories that I was offered and the reality I lived. I missed the instruments to understand the world.

This popular culture was no longer enough to build oneself. He locked in a false reality. All my friends had a story to tell if it was like it, Italian or Jewish. As generous, our identity seems to be erased in the 1970s. “

Then he is immersed in the militia literature and finds it “Black skin, white masks“De Fannon, This is an electric shock: “I heard this listening that I couldn’t do my dignity for the time they offered me.”

Take the film in the context in the context as it is obvious to the filmmaker: “A kind of predecessor, I felt that the story was repeating and I saw that my story of Guadelupan was repeating with the French mourning.

I always knew that one day I was going to make a movie about Franz Fannon, where and how I didn’t know yet. That’s when I felt that the wind was turning here, I realized that the film had to be made in Algeria, where colonialism was the most barbaric and devastating.

I hope that I managed to almost educate the relationships that the French had with the former colonies. And to understand what he is currently playing in France, you have to go to the source. “

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