Oct 14, 2007
The Battle Of Algiers, Written and Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
“The film depicts an episode in the war of independence in then French Algeria, in the capital city of Algiers. It reconstructs the events of November 1954 to December 1960 in Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence, beginning with the organization of revolutionary cells in the Casbah. From there, it depicts the conflict between native Algerians and European settlers (pied-noirs) in which the two sides exchange acts of increasing violence…”
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