Gloria mundi (1976)

 Gloria mundi (1976 France)

aka

Tortura

The young actress Galai is hired by his friend and director Hamdias to interpret a film

denouncing the torture of suspected terrorists during the war of Algeria. The woman,

using audio recordings made during the torture, practices the worst violence on

herself to make her own interpretation as realistic as possible, to confuse reality with

fiction. Galai, as the character she plays, is a part, along with her lover, a subversive

movement. In an attempt to rejoin Hamdias is forced to flee an exhausting marked by

humiliation and betrayal that ends in an unpredictable finish. NV&S 

From Cinema of the World