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Pontecorvo’s passionate and devastating study of terrorism builds a tight narrative around the reconstruction of the main political events in Algiers between 1954-57: the rise of the nationalist movement led by the Algerian Liberation Front (F. L. N.), its crushing defeat by the French in 1957 and the resurgence 3 years later of Arab nationalism with led to Algerian independence in 1962. The film holds both a specific and a universal interest; first in the observation of the method of starting - and crushing a revolutionary movement and second in the wider implications behind both French and Algerian tactics and the implicit debate on the legtimacy of the steps taken to achieve an end. In French and Arabic with English sub-titles.
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ACMI Identifier
307762
Language
French
Audience classification
M (15+)
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Realism in motion pictures
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Terrorism
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Torture victims
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Women in war
Crime, Espionage, Justice, Police & Prisons → Terrorism
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Nationalism
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Terrorism
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Torture victims
Feature films → Feature films - Italy
History → Algeria - History - Autonomy and independence movements
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Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)