The Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri) is a war film released in 1966. It is based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against French colonial rule in North Africa. It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
The Battle of Algiers depicts an episode of the war, occurred in Algiers, capital city of French Algeria, that reconstructs events occurred in the city between November 1954 and December 1960, during the Algerian War o...
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The Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri) is a war film released in 1966. It is based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against French colonial rule in North Africa. It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
The Battle of Algiers depicts an episode of the war, occurred in Algiers, capital city of French Algeria, that reconstructs events occurred in the city between November 1954 and December 1960, during the Algerian War of Independence.
The narrative begins with the organization of revolutionary cells in the Casbah. Then civil war between native Algerians and European settlers (pied-noirs) in which the sides exchange acts of increasing violence, leading to the introduction of French army paratroopers to hunt the National Liberation Front (FLN). The paratroopers are depicted as winning the battle by neutralizing the whole of the FLN leadership either through assassination or through capture, however, the film ends with a coda depicting demonstrations and...
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