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The Battle of Algiers is a Algérien film of genre Drama directed by Gillo Pontecorvo released in USA on 13 march 1967 with Jean Martin

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

italien : La battaglia di Algeri, arabe : معركة الجزائر

The Battle of Algiers
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Released in USA 13 march 1967
Length 2h1
Directed by
OriginAlgerie
Genres Drama,    War,    Documentary,    Historical
Rating80% 4.0486454.0486454.0486454.0486454.048645

The Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri; Arabic: معركة الجزائر‎; French: La Bataille d'Alger) is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. An Italo-Algerian production, it was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and shot on location. The film, which was shot in a Rossellini-inspired newsreel style—in black and white with documentary-type editing—is often associated with Italian neorealism cinema.

The film has been critically celebrated and often taken, by insurgent groups and states alike, as an important commentary on urban guerrilla warfare. It occupies the 48th place on the Critics' Top 250 Films of the 2012 Sight & Sound poll as well as 120th place on Empire magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.

Algeria gained independence from the French, a matter which Pontecorvo portrays in the film's epilogue. The film concentrates on the years between 1954 and 1957 when the guerrilla fighters regrouped and expanded into the Casbah, which was met by French paratroopers attempting to regain territory. The highly dramatic film is about the organization of a guerrilla movement and the methods used by the colonial power to contain it.

A subject of socio-political controversy, the film wasn't screened for five years in France, where it was later released in 1971.

Synopsis

En 1954 à Alger, le Front de libération nationale (FLN) diffuse son premier communiqué : son but est l'indépendance nationale vis-à-vis de la France, et la restauration de l'État algérien. Ali la Pointe propose des parties de bonneteau. Repéré par la police, il s'enfuit mais se fait agresser par un passant, il réplique et se fait tabasser par le reste du groupe. Rattrapé par la police, il se fait arrêter. Emprisonné, il assiste par la fenêtre de sa cellule à l'exécution d'une peine de mort par guillotine sur un nationaliste. Le FLN le contacte.

Actors

Jean Martin

(Colonel Philippe Mathieu)
Brahim Haggiag

(Ali La Pointe)
Rouiched

(The Drunk Man (uncredited))
Larbi Zekkal

(Un combattant du FLN, (l'acteur non crédité au générique))
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