The Battle of Algiers
The Revolt that Stirred the World!
Production
Budget
$800 000
Box office
$964 028
Director
Actors
Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Ben Kassen, Yacef Saadi, Fusia El Kader, Larbi Zekkal, Rouiched, Nour-Eddine Brahimi, Si Mohamed Baghdadi, Abderrahmane Brahimi, Jean Martin
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Yacef Saadi, Antonio Musu, Fred Baker
Camera operator
Marcello Gatti
Composer
Artist
Sergio Canevari
Audition
Editing
Short description
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the memoir book by Yazev Saadi — one of the leaders of the National Liberation Front, who produced the film and played himself in it.
- In France, the film was considered propaganda and banned from screening until the end of the decade.
- The realistic depiction of the partisan movement made "The Battle of Algiers" a favorite film of various radical terrorist groups, including Andreas Baader (one of the founders and leaders of the German far-left terrorist organization "Red Army Faction") and the "Black Panthers" (an American far-left organization of African Americans whose goal was to promote the civil rights of the Black population).
- At the beginning of the American invasion of Iraq, a screening of the film was organized at the Pentagon as a documentary of guerrilla warfare in an Arab metropolis.
- The realistic depiction of the guerrilla movement made "The Battle of Algiers" a favorite film of various radical terrorist groups, including Andreas Baader (one of the founders and leaders of the German far-left terrorist organization "Red Army Faction") and the "Black Panthers" (an American far-left organization of Black people aiming to promote the civil rights of the Black population).
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