The battle of Algiers La battaille d'Alger
DVD - 2013
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- War films
Political films
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Irvington, New York :
Criterion Collection
[2013]
- Language
- French
Arabic - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Director-approved special edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Based on an idea by Saadi Yacef.
Special features: Disc 1: theatrical and re-release trailers; production gallery. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white and colour ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Production designer, Sergio Canevari ; edited by Mario Serandrei and Mario Morra ; director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; music, Ennio Morricone and Gillo Pontecorvo.
- ISBN
- 9781604657722
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