Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)

Director:

Gillo Pontecorvo

Writers:

Gillo Pontecorvo (writer)
Franco Solinas (writer)

Release Date:

20 septiembre 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | History | War

Frase comercial:

The French Colonel...who was forced even to torture! One of the many women...who stopped at nothing to win! The Algerian Street Boy...who became a rebel hero!

Plot:

A surprisingly unbiased account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history.

Plot Keywords:

French Soldier | Liberation | French Army | Freedom | Uniform

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A savage war of peace.

Cast

Brahim Hadjadj	...	Ali La Pointe (as Brahim Haggiag)
Jean Martin	...	Col. Mathieu
Yacef Saadi	...	Djafar (as Saadi Yacef)
Samia Kerbash	...	One of the girls
Ugo Paletti	...	Captain
Fusia El Kader	...	Halima
Omar
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Mohamed Ben Kassen	...	Petit Omar

También conocida como:

Maarakat madinat al Jazaer (Algeria: Arabic title)
The Battle of Algiers (USA)
Batalla de Argel, La (Spain) [es]

Duración:

121 min

País:

Algeria | Italy

Idioma:

Italian | French | English | Arabic

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

USA:Not Rated | Brazil:14 | Norway:16 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Finland:K-16 | France:(Banned) (1965-1971) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1993) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:16 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Algeria

Company:

Casbah Film

Trivialidades:

This film was shot like a documentary. It was banned in France, and the torture scenes were cut in the US and UK.

Goofs:

Continuity: Ali's first assignment is to assault a police officer. During this, the cop's hat falls to the ground, and the position of the hat changes between cuts.

Quotes:

Col. Mathieu: There are 80,000 Arabs in the Kasbah. Are they all against us? We know they're not. In reality, it's only a small minority that dominates with terror and violence. This minority is our adversary and we must isolate and destroy it.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

A savage war of peace.

An historian writing about the Algerian war against the French colonial authorities entitled his book "A Savage War of Peace". "The Battle of Algiers" provides many answers to that enigmatic title. It does not attempt to show us the entire war but centers on the city of Algiers. Even though you are told at the beginning that no documentary footage is used it is at times hard to believe as many of the images you see have a stark and often unsettling reality to them. Considering that this was a co production between Algeria and Italy the film is remarkable in that it does not turn itself a political tirade by taking sides. Instead the camera is a sort of neutral observer allowing us to witness events that spiraled from individual demonstrations to a full scale war of savage intensity. French officers who fought the Nazis a few years before degenerated into the mode of their former enemy while Algerians had no problems exploding bombs that would kill their own people. The camera shows no heros or villains but humanity in its darkest forms. This is a powerful film with superb direction and cinematography. It truly is one of a kind and once seen will never be forgotten.