Yoru, Subete No Chi Ha Kuroi / Hara Title : FRERE D'AME

[Machine Translation] The film brings back to life the pain and sorrow of a hundred-year-old war and the voices buried in history. Alfa, a Senegalese infantryman, is faced with a decision in front of his dying friend. Twenty-year-old Alfa and his countryman friend Mademba were mobilized by the French in World War I. In the trenches of the German army, Mademba is on the verge of death. The agony of having his stomach ripped open is terrible, and when Mademba begs him to kill him at once, he does. That day, Alfa changed. He captures German soldiers, tears their bellies open, kills their suffering, and cuts off their hands. Although his friends treated him as a hero, they feared him more with each hand he brought back. But that did not stop Alpha from taking his revenge... A new masterpiece of war literature that vividly depicts the psychology of a young man torn between humanity and inhumanity, between submission and freedom, under the extreme conditions of war. Winner of the Booker International Prize and the Goncourt Prize for High School Students. More than 250,000 copies sold in France.

百年前の戦争の苦しみと哀しみ、歴史に埋もれた声がよみがえる。セネガル歩兵のアルファは、瀕死の友をまえに決断を迫られていた。第一次世界大戦でフランスに動員された20歳のアルファと同郷の友マデンバ。対ドイツ軍の塹壕戦で、マデンバは死に瀕していた。腹を切り裂かれた苦しみは凄まじく、一思いに殺してほしいというマデンバの懇願に、アルファは―。この日を境にアルファは変わった。ドイツ兵を捕らえ、腹を引き裂き、苦しむ相手を殺してやり、手を切り落としてゆく。仲間からは英雄扱いされるものの、持ち帰る手が増えるたびに、恐れられていった。それでもアルファの復讐は止まらずに...。戦争という極限状況におかれ、人間性と非人間性、服従と自由に引き裂かれてゆく青年の心理を鮮烈に描き出す、新たな戦争文学の傑作。ブッカー国際賞、高校生が選ぶゴンクール賞受賞作。フランスで25万部突破。