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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
Brahim Hadjadj
Ali La Pointe
Mohamed Zinet
Fouzia El Kader
Halima
Fred Baker
Rouiched
The Drunk Man (uncredited)
Yacef Saâdi
El-Hadi Jaffar
Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
Noureddine Brahimi
Responsable FLN
Larbi Zekkal
Combattant FLN
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Petit Omar
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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