indigenes (days of glory)

[delux_vivens]

This movie, about Africans fighting for France in WWII has been nominated for a foriegn language oscar (trailer here)

Note that the following article is dated 2006.

Equal pay for French colonial veterans
France decreed Wednesday that overseas veterans will soon get the same pensions as their French peers.

Comments

[recumbentgoat]

thanks for posting this I'll be looking out to rent taht movie.

[sparkle_shortz]

We thought of ourselves as French when we went into battle.

This reminds me of Fanon, and of Barthes' essay on the photograph of the Senegalese soldier saluting the tricolor.