Cartouches gauloises (Summer of '62, English name), is a 2007 French movie, filmed in Algeria and directed by Mehdi Charef. It was an official selection of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
The plot concerns the final stages of the Algerian War of Independence in the summer if 1962, as seen through the eyes of Ali, the 11 year-old son of an FLN moudjahid, his mother and his French and Arab friends, as they experience the massive social changes of th...
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Cartouches Gauloises
Film
Directed by
Mehdi Charef
Mehdi Charef (born 21 October 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Seven years later, his film Au pays des Juliets...
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- 92 min (55 hs )