In 1960, in the heart of the Sahara, the Algerian town of Reggane was forever changed.It was on that testing site that France detonated its first atomic bomb, establishing itself as the world’s fourth nuclear power.But this test left a deep scar on the town.With a contaminated zone 150 kilometers in diameter, it forever altered the landscape and the lives of its inhabitants, the thousand nomadic Bedouins, unaware of the catastrophe that was about to unfold.In this short film, Rachid Bouchareb recounts, through archive footage and new testimonies, this forgotten and forgotten tragedy, the consequences of which continue to reverberate today.
