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

Name: 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
Genre: History, Documentary, Drama
Released: 2025-07-23
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Alexandre Desane, Frantz Fanon, Gérard Dubouche, Nicolas Dromard, Omar Boulakirba

Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956 (2025)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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Release date

2025-07-23

Country

Algeria, France

Production

Shellac Sud, CADC, Atlas Film Production

Genre

History, Documentary, Drama

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Website

https://www.frantzfanonthemovie.com/

Director

Abdenour Zahzah

Actors

Alexandre Desane, Frantz Fanon, Gérard Dubouche, Nicolas Dromard, Omar Boulakirba, Catherine Boskowitz, Amal Kateb, Rachid Benallal, Chahrazad Kracheni, Frédéric Restagno
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Abdenour Zahzah

Producer

Abdenour Zahzah

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Aurélien Py

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Maya Mancer

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Editing

Abdenour Zahzah, Youcef Abba
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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.