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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.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 249.
- Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
- Classic collection
- The criterion collection ; 249
- Standardized Title:
- Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī--Drama.
- Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī.
- Autonomy.
- Terrorism.
- Torture.
- History.
- Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Drama.
- Algeria.
- Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria)--Drama.
- Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria).
- Torture--Algeria--Drama.
- Terrorism--Algeria--Drama.
- Autonomy--Drama.
- Motion pictures, Algerian.
- Motion pictures, Italian.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Algerian.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages ; 19 cm).
- Edition:
- Special édition ; widescreen presentation.
- Other Title:
- Battle of Algiers
- Place of Publication:
- Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2004]
- Language Note:
- French and Arabic dialogue, optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- 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.).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward J. Lewis Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0780028872
- OCLC:
- 55859304
- Publisher Number:
- 037429195628
- BAT120 Criterion Collection
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