VO ST FR, NL, 109′, 4€
Les Hommes d’Argile is a poetic film about the forgotten battle of North Africans on the side of the allies during World War II. But don’t expect violent actions and dialogues. The film is not so much a reconstruction of forgotten war facts, but rather a search for pure beauty in the midst of pure horror.
The young Sulayman lives in Morocco in « the rock of clay », in perfect harmony with the fauna, the flora. Orphan, he was raised by an old hermit who is nicknamed the man « with turbulent veins ». Sulayman meets Kadija, the daughter of the Caid, the leader of an immense region. Thirsty for power, He does not accept the marriage of his daughter with a shepherd.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the young shepherd was forcibly recruited into the French army. Plunged into the atrocities of war, he decides to seek at all costs a form of humanity in the destiny of this contingent of Moroccan soldiers embarked in spite of them in a conflict that not concerned them …