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La Bataille d'Alger

Genre : War

Release date : Wednesday 01 january 2014
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

"The Battle of Algiers" (Italian: La Battaglia di Algeri, Arabic: معركة الجزائر), is an Algerian-Italian film by Gillo Pontecorvo, released in 1966.

Features Collector's Edition 2DVD

Original title: La Battaria di Algeri
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Screenplay: Gillo Pontecorvo
Music by: Ennio Morricone
Publisher: Studio Canal
Language 1: French
Pal / Black White (DVD1) / Color (DVD2)
Stereo

Content

Film: The Battle of Algiers
Exclusive interviews with Gillo Pontecorvo the director, Saadi Yacef and Jean Martin (Comedians)
Documentaries: "The Battle of the Battle of Algiers", "The historical context"

The story takes place essentially between 1954 and 1957 and takes as its setting, as its title indicates, the Battle of Algiers. It is a reconstruction of the real battle of Algiers in 1957, on the occasion of the uprising of the Muslim Algerian population by the FLN against the French colonial power, and the attempt by the paratrooper detachment of the French army to "pacify" the sector.

The film mainly traces the story of Ali la Pointe during "the battle of Algiers", and the fight for control of the Casbah district in Algiers, between FLN militants and French paratroopers of the 10th DP , during the Algerian War.

According to the ranking established by Sight & Sound, the British Film Institute's film magazine, The Battle of Algiers is ranked 48th on the 50 best films of all time, and 120th on Empire magazine's list of the 500 best films of all time. all the time.




Technical sheet

French title: The Battle of Algiers
Original titles: La Battaglia di Algeri and معركة الجزائر
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Assistant director: Ruggero Deodato and Giuliano Montaldo
Screenplay: Franco Solinas based on a book by Yacef Saadi
Music: Ennio Morricone and Gillo Pontecorvo
Musician: The solo military drummer: Pierino Munari.
Photography: Marcello Gatti
Editing: Mario Morra and Mario Serandrei
Production: Antonio Musu for Igor Film (Italy); Yacef Saadi for Casbah Film (Algeria)
Executive production: Ruggero Deodato
Distribution companies: StudioCanal
Budget: $800,000
Country of origin: Algeria, Italy
Original languages: French, Arabic, Italian and English
Format: black and white - 1.85:1 - mono - 35 mm
Genre: War, drama, historical, political
Duration: 121 minutes
CNC mention: prohibited for children under 12 years old, art house (operating visa no. 37251 issued on June 1, 1970)4
Release date: Algeria: 1966, France: 1971

Distribution

Brahim Hadjadj: Ali la Pointe
Jean Martin: Colonel Mathieu
Yacef Saadi: Djafar, the head of the Autonomous Zone of Algiers
Mohammed Beghdadi as Larbi Ben M'hidi
Mohamed Ben Kassen as Little Omar
Fouzia El Kader: Halima, one of the girls from the bomb network
Samia Kerbash: One of the girls from the bomb network
Ugo Paletti: The captain of the French paratroopers
Larbi Zekkal: An FLN fighter
Rouiched: The role of the drunkard

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