Madagascar: l'insurrection de l'île rouge

Story

On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar. The revolt would end twenty months later with the death of the last insurgents, shot down by the expeditionary force. France, accustomed to memory lapses, knew nothing of this insurrection and its trail of torture and abuses. In Madagascar, well after independence, the events of 1947 were never discussed. For more than a generation, parents refused to speak of them to their children. It wasn't until the 1980s that the silence was broken.

«This film aims to bear witness to a forgotten massacre, during a war of independence sadly similar to the wars in Indochina and Algeria.»

Kurzinfos

Originaltitel

Madagascar: l'insurrection de l'île rouge

Status

Released

Start

01.01.1994

Laufzeit

55 min

Originalsprache

fr

Genres

Dokumentarfilm