• EUROPEAN CINEMA
• DAYS OF GLORY
• QUEEN'S FILM THEATRE
  9.00PM - SUNDAY 25TH MARCH
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During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

In his film, Bouchareb pays tribute to the heroism of these men fighting for the liberation of a homeland they had never seen before. Recruited in 1943 in their home villages in Algeria and Morocco, the soldiers have only rudimentary training but as time goes by they encounter both joy and confusion as their sacrifices for the ""motherland"" are rewarded with discrimination on every front.

Days of Glory is as moving as it is ingenuous, with each doomed character symbolizing a different response to the collective dilemma these men face as Arabs with divided loyalties. The film also tackles the thorny subject of what happened after war when the French government froze the pensions of all North African soldiers who fought on France's side during World War II, an issue which has only recently been resolved in France.

Dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2006, France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium, 128 mins, Cert 15, Metrodome