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Title La bataille d'Alger = The battle of Algiers / un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scňario de Franco Solinas ; production Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi.

Publication Info. Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .B347 2004    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1997 .B347 2004  booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Special ed.
Description 3 DVD (123 min.) : sound, black and white and color; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages ; 19 cm).
digital
optical
mono
Dolby
video file
DVD video
region 1
Series The criterion collection ; 249
Criterion collection ; 249.
System Details DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono.
Cast Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader.
Credits Director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; editors, Mario Serandrei & Mario Morra ; music, Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo ; production designer, Sergio Canevari.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Summary Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.
Note Special features: Disc 1: theatrical and re-release trailers; production gallery. Disc 2: "Gillo Pontecorvo: the dictatorship of truth," a 37 min. documentary made in 1992 about Pontecorvo; The making of The battle of Algiers (51 min.); Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone discuss the film (17 min.). Disc 3: "Remembering history," a 69 min. documentary about the Algerian Revolution; "États d'armes," 28 min. of excerpts from Patrick Rotman's 3-part documentary, L'Ennemi Intime, which focuses on the horror of the Revolution; "The battle of Algiers, a case study" a 25 min. conversation about the contemporary relevance of The battle of Algiers between former National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism Richard A. Clarke, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Michael A. Sheehan, and Chief of Investigative Projects for ABC News, Christopher E. Isham; "Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers" (1992) (58 min.).
Language French and Arabic dialogue, optional English subtitles.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Historical films.
Historical films.
War films.
War films.
Subject Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī -- Drama.
Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 -- Drama.
Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria) -- Drama.
Torture -- Algeria -- Drama.
Torture.
Algeria.
Terrorism -- Algeria -- Drama.
Terrorism.
Autonomy -- Drama.
Autonomy.
Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006.
Solinas, Franco, 1927-1982.
Haggiag, Brahim.
Martin, Jean.
Saadi, Yacef, 1928-2021.
Kerbash, Samia.
Paletti, Ugo.
Gatti, M. (Marcello)
Morricone, Ennio.
Casbah Films.
Igor Film.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title Battle of Algiers
ISBN 0780028872
Music No. BAT120 Criterion Collection