True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

Name: True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
Genre: History, Drama, Documentary
Released: 2024-02-18
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Alexandre Desane, Frantz Fanon

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956

Produced by:

Atlas Film Production
Shellac Sud
CADC

Released on: Sunday, February 18, 2024

Runtime: 91 minutes (1h 31m)

Genres:

History
Drama
Documentary

Directed by: Abdenour Zahzah

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Overview

1953, colonized Algeria. Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algies School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.