We shall have the whole of death to sleep

We shall have the whole of death to sleep

1977 · 160 min · ★ 9.0 · Documentary

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.

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