Bloody Beans
Director Narimane Mari
Countries Algeria
Duration 84 min
Synopsis
17 kids are looting the French Army, while it is firing at the Organization de l’Armée Secrète: oil, chocolate, semolina, sugar, and even a war prisoner condemned to eat beans. But the war catches up with the beautiful adventure and the beans are marred in blood. Through the transgressive and powerful imagination of children, the movie tells the end of French Algeria.
17 kids are looting the French Army, while it is firing at the Organization de l’Armée Secrète: oil, chocolate, semolina, sugar, and even a war prisoner condemned to eat beans. But the war catches up with the beautiful adventure and the beans are marred in blood. Through the transgressive and powerful imagination of children, the movie tells the end of French Algeria.