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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté (2021)

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté (2021)

Documentary
Release Date: 2021, November 7
Directors: Mathieu Glissant, Audrey Maurion
Countries: France
Production: France Télévisions, CNC, PROCIREP, Angoa-Agicoa
Cast: Frantz Fanon, Alex Descas, Léonie Simaga, Benamar Médiène, Jean Khalfa

Overview:

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he participated in the bubbling life of Saint-Germain with Césaire, Senghor and Sartre, debating tirelessly on the destiny of colonized peoples. As a doctor, he revolutionized the practice of psychiatry, seeking in the relations of domination of colonial societies the foundations of the pathologies of his patients in Blida. Activist, he brings together through his action and his history of him, the anger of peoples crushed by centuries of colonial oppression. But beyond this exceptional journey which makes sensitive the permanence of French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles at the gates of the Algerian desert, he leaves an incomparable body of work which has made him today one of the most studied French authors across the Atlantic.

Keywords:

biography africa struggle for independence anti-colonialism martinique political activism algeria algerian war (1954-62) panafricanism frantz fanon