The Sun Assassinated

Jean Senac, a gay French poet and radio host, is a "pied-noir", a Frenchman born in Algeria. A decade after Algeria gained independence from France, Senac becomes an enemy of the authorities for his homosexuaual lifestyle and progressive ideas. He befriends young playwright Hamid (Mehdi Dehbi) after Hamid's play wins a national contest, but their friendship has tragic consequences.

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Award Winning
  • Decolonize
  • French Exclusive Fiction
  • Screen: North Africa
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Africa
  • biopic
  • conflict
  • friendship
  • literature
  • politics
  • youth

Actors

  • Abbes Zahmani
  • Alexis Loret
  • Fethi Heddaoui
  • Hichem Rostom

Director

  • Abdelkrim Bahloul

Biography, Queer


2h


16+

FR


EN

DE

Algeria
Belgium
France
2002
A dramatization of actual events portraying both the contentious rise and success of Jean Senac in Algeria and a friendship that ends in tragedy.

A dramatization of actual events portraying both the contentious rise and success of Jean Senac in Algeria and a friendship that ends in tragedy.


Jean Senac, a gay French poet and radio host, is a "pied-noir", a Frenchman born in Algeria. A decade after Algeria gained independence from France, Senac becomes an enemy of the authorities for his homosexuaual lifestyle and progressive ideas. He befriends young playwright Hamid (Mehdi Dehbi) after Hamid's play wins a national contest, but their friendship has tragic consequences.

Cast & Crew