Where to Watch Opium and the Stick

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We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'Opium and the Stick' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Opium and the Stick' right now, here are some details about the Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC) drama flick.

Released , 'Opium and the Stick' stars Mustapha Kateb, Rouiched (Ahmed Ayad), Sid Ali Kouiret, Jean-Louis Trintignant The movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 17 min, and received a user score of 76 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 8 respected users.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema." .