La Bataille d'Alger = The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo (Film director), Franco Solinas (Screenwriter), Yacef Saadi (Film producer, Actor), Brahim Haggiag (Actor), Jean Martin (Actor), Mohamed Ben Kassen (Actor), Samia Kerbash (Actor), Ugo Paletti (Actor), M. Gatti (Cinematographer), Ennio Morricone, Casbah Films (Production company), Igor Film (Production company), Criterion Collection (Firm) (Film distributor), Janus Films (Film distributor), Kanopy (Firm)
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed
Online Video, French, 2021
Criterion Collection, Irvington, N.Y., 2021