Documentary
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.
Directed by
Villi Hermann
Written by
Villi Hermann, Eve Martin
Freddy Buache
Self
Nils Andersson
Self
Anita Bernard
Self
André Bernard
Self
Claude Garino
Self
Jean-Claude Girardin
Self
Claude Glayman
Self
Lillis Kielland
Self
Pierre Leray
Self
Paul Kobisch
Self
Simone Mohr
Self
Michel Monod
Self
Louis Orhant
Self
Jacques Pous
Self
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