La bataille d'Alger The battle of Algiers / un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scňario de Franco Solinas ; production Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi.
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 resor...
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Corporate Authors: |
Casbah Films,
Igor Film,
Criterion Collection (Firm) |
Other Authors: |
Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006,
Solinas, Franco, 1927-1982,
Haggiag, Brahim,
Martin, Jean,
Saadi, Yacef, 1928-,
Kerbash, Samia,
Paletti, Ugo,
Gatti, M. (Marcello),
Morricone, Ennio |
Format: | Video
DVD
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Language: | French Arabic |
Published: |
Irvington, NY :
Criterion Collection,
c2004.
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Edition: | Special ed. |
Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
249.
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Subjects: | |