Le Soleil assassiné (2003)
Directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul

Film Synopsis

After Algeria achieved independence in 1962, most of its native European population left the country, through fear of what the future might hold for them.  Jean Sénac is one of the French nationals who have chosen to remain in Algeria, a prominent poet who isn't yet ready to turn his back on the country that he loves and still considers his own.  Through his publications and radio broadcasts, Sénac has become a very popular figure in Algeria, especially amongst the young, who look upon him as an inspiration.  Not everyone is so taken with him, however.

The poet who famously 'signed with a sun' is regarded with suspicion by the Algerian authorities, and he is constantly under police surveillance.   It is Sénac who comes to the aid of two students, Hamid and Belkacem, when the play they created for the first Algerian National Theatre Festival is censored because it is to be performed in the French language.  The students show their gratitude by assisting the poet in his determined personal campaign for cultural freedom.  The campaign will end suddenly and dramatically with Sénac's brutal murder, one night in August 1973...