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The Battle of Algiers

La battaglia di Algeri

1966 12+ 2 hours 1 min.

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The Revolt that Stirred the World!

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

bafta

British Film Academy

1972

United nations prize

venice

Venice Film Festival

1966

Prize of the international association of film critics (fipresci)

Golden lion

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Countries:

Italy Algeria

Genres:

Drama War

Properties:

realistic slow complex brutal cruel dramatic ambiguous

Director:

Gillo Pontecorvo

Rating:

1000 Greatest Movies #58

Writers:

Franco Solinas Gillo Pontecorvo

Producers:

Antonio Musu Yacef Saadi Fred Baker

Camerman:

Marcello Gatti

Music:

Ennio Morricone Gillo Pontecorvo

Studios:

Igor Film Casbah Film

Premiere: 31 August 1966

Budget:$800 000

Competitions:

Oscar

1967

NOMINATIONS

Best foreign language film

Best original screenplay

Best director

Gillo Pontecorvo

British Film Academy

1972

United nations prize

Venice Film Festival

1966

	Prize of the international association of film critics (fipresci)
	Golden lion

Tags:

war struggle for independence Algeria battle based on real events Algerian soldier torture Algerian war arrest liberation French Foreign Legion 1954 military police mutiny independence struggle for freedom epic battle reproduction of real events children French docudrama suicide by hanging The French-Algerian War poverty prostitution revolution boxer family relationships school French soldier test partisan politics commitment gang Islam religion government corruption Muslim murder refugee mountain high heels freedom fighter debt horse racing refuge strike reporter wedding 1950s resistance prison morality homelessness human rights suicide hairdresser police army uprising fascism crime patient guerrilla warfare terrorism communist revenge uniform friendship law and order prostitute Fire from weapons rebel armed forces gambling child donkey beach teacher dog traitor prisoner horse racing military parade colonialism battle execution brothel mockumentary (mockumentary film) Guy terrorist doctor cruelty oppression fidelity friend avenger revolutionary bomber colonial war baby bombing attack freedom airport informant death party parade self-determination prude stonemason cover pursuit on foot speaker terrace Military intervention coward messenger prayer chaos running beggar poster mosque unity hierarchy escape ambush tears capture protest surrender Lieutenant Colonel stoicism fighter megaphone 1960 cafe haircut bloodshed binoculars wound Weapons defeat alley scaffold raid dress incompetence mobilization embarrassment setup dancing sadist shooting retreat restaurant staircase pride agitator vandalism bread trust demonstration tapeworm degradation blockage Prize Venice Film Festival 1966 bafta award British Academy 1972 beating flashlight rain doc microphone revolver destruction hijab terrorist Fire tank carnage Impoverishment security addict promise napalm jeep electric torture diagram blockade tunis coffee reading market guillotine French politics martini basket trapped patrol militant photography liberator fear colonel trap medal policeman defenselessness rifle takes suffering informant whistle interrogation chalk handcuffs umbrella flashy heroism smoke mediation dancer motorcycle explosion well machine gun bomb French occupation drink truck courage stadium blood persecution crying barricade prologue roof helicopter Fight general bar plane search dance hall peace (tranquility) semi-documentary Chief of Police Firearms gunshot wound death sentence killer police officer drug use boy hitman Point-blank shot boy with newspapers clandestine activities door breaking French history correctional facility kicked in the butt explosive substance hopeless situation chalkboard 1956 police captain 1962 police siren expired ammunition discolored hair bomb-maker death in youth phone call battlefield Smoking cigarettes burning papers playing cards electric shock petty offender Woman in veil destruction of property secret shelter paratrooper search warrant beheading police raid tear on the cheek street life vicious circle barbed wire police headquarters brothel owner French army street fighting 1957 general strike policeman on motorcycle blowtorch death of boy street fighter jukebox ID card street market cult film police station classroom press conference Punch to the face newsreel coca cola dead body personal injury breaking and entering transfer of corpse propane cylinder Dairy Cafe underwear documentary style curfew mention of Allah north africa clandestine fighting secret place Automatic weapons Shot in the back sunglasses French colony Man with glasses secret shelter mass murder street fight marching band arms smuggling Mercenary Assassin relationship between husband and wife relations between men and women mother-daughter relationship mother-son relationship infiltration into enemy ranks Handguns checkpoint United Nations fortress (in North Africa) Stabbing with a knife dead woman on earth close-up of eyes Violation of public order evader (from military service) army against population drinking alcohol ambulance murder of a police officer self-esteem Flashback Flashforward Prison cell Hidden camera Film projector mention of gen-pole Sartre French Armed Forces carrying the body of a dead woman horse racing in light carriages

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Cast:

Jean Martin Yacef Saadi Brahim Hadjadj Ugo Paletti Fusia El Kader Mohamed Ben Kassen Franco Moruzzi Tommaso Neri Samia Kerbash Rouïched Gene Wesson

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