By coincidence, the Oussekine series by Antoine Chevrollier (Black Baron, The Office of Legends) has been available since May 11 on Disney+. But Our Brothers by Rachid Bouchareb, the director of Indigènes, is not a film about the Oussekine affair, this 22-year-old French student who died in 1986 under the blows of the police on the sidelines of a demonstration against a project of university reform, a drama suppressed by the government. It aims to tell more. Because behind the title Our brothers, there are two names: Malik Oussekine and Abdel Benyahia. The second was killed by a bullet fired by a drunk inspector but his death was overshadowed by that of the first. Twenty-six years after the events, Rachid Bouchareb sheds light on this double tragedy that occurred under the Mitterrand government, when France was going through a period of renewal and fraternity. With Our brothers, presented out of competition at Cannes last May, Rachid Bouchareb returns to the Croisette after marking the festival in 2009 with Indigènes, his powerful film about the forgotten soldiers of the first French army recruited in Africa. In the cast of this new film, we find Reda Kateb and Lyna Khoudri as Malik Oussekine’s father and sister, Samir Guesmi as Abdel Benyahia’s father, and Raphaël Personnaz as Daniel Mattei, the IGS inspector. .Our brothers will be in theaters on December 7th.
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