La bataille d' Alger = the Battle of Algiers / Casbah Film présente ; un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scénario de Franco Solinas ; production, Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi avec la collaboration de Igor Film-Rome.

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The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank r...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
Criterion collection ; 249.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Casbah Films (Production company)
Igor Film (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006 (Film director, Screenwriter, composer (expression))
Solinas, Franco, 1927-1982 (Screenwriter)
Saadi, Yacef, 1928-2021 (Film producer, Actor)
Haggiag, Brahim (Actor)
Martin, Jean, 1922-2009 (Actor)
Kerbash, Samia (Actor)
Paletti, Ugo (Actor)
El Kader, Fusia (Actor)
Canevari, Sergio (Production designer)
Serandrei, Mario, 1907-1966 (Editor of moving image work)
Morra, Mario, 1935- (Editor of moving image work)
Gatti, M. (Marcello) (director of photography.)
Morricone, Ennio (composer (expression))
Said, Edward W. (Narrator)
Lee, Spike (interviewee (expression))
Nair, Mira (interviewee (expression))
Schnabel, Julian, 1951- (interviewee (expression))
Soderbergh, Steven, 1963- (interviewee (expression))
Stone, Oliver (interviewee (expression))
Rotman, Patrick (Filmmaker)
Isham, Christopher (interviewee (expression))
Clarke, Richard A. (Richard Alan), 1951- (interviewee (expression))
Sheehan, Michael A. (interviewee (expression))
Matthews, Peter (Writer of added commentary)
Kapil, Arun (Writer of added commentary)
Language:French
Arabic
English
Language of the Original:
French
Language and/or Writing System:
In French and Arabic; with optional English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Series:Criterion collection ; 249.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962 > Drama.
Algiers (Algeria) > History > Drama.
1954 - 1962
Algeria.
Algeria > Algiers.
War films.
Political films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films > Italy.
Feature films > Algeria.
Drama.
History.
Genre:
Drama.
War films.
Political films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films
History.
Physical Description:3 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages ; 18 cm).
Variant Title:
Battle of Algiers.
Format: Video DVD

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