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The Battle of Algiers
1966, Sep 08
2h 2m
Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings.
Directed by
Gillo Pontecorvo
Written by
Franco Solinas
Jean Martin
Colonel Philippe Mathieu
Mohamed Zinet
Larbi Zekkal
Combattant FLN
Rouiched
The Drunk Man (uncredited)
Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
Fouzia El Kader
Halima
Brahim Hadjadj
Ali La Pointe
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Petit Omar
Fred Baker
Si Mohamed Baghdadi
Larbi Ben M'hidi (uncredited)
Yacef Saâdi
El-Hadi Jaffar
Noureddine Brahimi
Responsable FLN
Kamel Djebara
Abderrahmane Brahimi
Le Marié de la Casbah
Samia Kerbash
Fathia
Ugo Paletti
Captain
Franco Moruzzi
Mahmoud (uncredited)
Tomasso Neri
Captain Dubois (uncredited)
Gene Wesson
(uncredited)
Fatiha Djoudi
La Mariée de la Casbah
Matteo Spinola
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