The Uprooted (movie)
Les Déracinés- User score: 10
- Production country: Algeria
- Producer: Mohamed Lamine Merbah
- Production companies: Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)
- Genre: War, Drama
- Release date: 3/1/1977
- Run time: 120 min.
Movie description
In 1880, in colonized Algeria, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would see their lands dispossessed in favor of the French colonists. Two methods were used to achieve this, either by sheer force or by a ploy forcing the fellahs to pay fines too high to be paid. The uprooted must then leave for the cities, swelling the mass of proletarians in the slums ...
