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The Battle of Algiers
1966, Sep 08
2h 1m
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.
Directed by
Gillo Pontecorvo
Written by
Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas
Jean Martin
Colonel Philippe Mathieu
Fouzia El Kader
Halima
Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
Mohamed Zinet
Fred Baker
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Petit Omar
Yacef Saâdi
El-Hadi Jaffar
Larbi Zekkal
Combattant FLN
Rouiched
The Drunk Man (uncredited)
Brahim Hadjadj
Ali La Pointe
Noureddine Brahimi
Responsable FLN
Si Mohamed Baghdadi
Larbi Ben M'hidi
Abderrahmane Brahimi
Le Marié de la Casbah
Kamel Djebara
Fatiha Djoudi
La Mariée de la Casbah
Franco Moruzzi
Mahmoud (uncredited)
Tomasso Neri
Captain Dubois
Samia Kerbash
Fathia
Ugo Paletti
Captain
Gene Wesson
(uncredited)
Matteo Spinola
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