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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.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .B3835 2011 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 249.
- The Criterion collection ; 249
- Standardized Title:
- Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Saadi, Yacef, 1928-2021--Film adaptations.
- Saadi, Yacef.
- Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī--Drama.
- Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī.
- Torture--Algeria--Drama.
- Torture.
- Terrorism--Algeria--Drama.
- Terrorism.
- Autonomy--Drama.
- Autonomy.
- Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Drama.
- Algeria.
- Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria)--Drama.
- Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria).
- Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture).
- Algeria--Algiers--Kasbah.
- Genre:
- Documentary-style films
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Historical films
- History
- War films
- War films.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Documentary-style films.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, Italian.
- Motion pictures, Algerian.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Edition:
- Director-approved two-disc Blu-ray special edition.
- Blu-ray edition.
- Other Title:
- Title on container and disc label: Battle of Algiers
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Language Note:
- French and Arabic dialogue with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Region A; widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1); mono; requires Blu-ray player.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- video file
- Blu-ray
- region A
- Summary:
- 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 range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style.
- Contents:
- disc 1. The battle of Algiers
- disc 2. History and the film.
- Participant:
- Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; editors, Mario Serandrei & Mario Morra ; music, Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo ; production designer, Sergio Canevari.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
- Based on: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger / Saadi Yacef.
- Accompanying booklet includes an essay by film scholar Peter Matthews; a reprinted interview with writer Franco Solinas; and brief biographies on the key figures in the French-Algerian War.
- Special features: Disc 1: "Gillo Pontecorvo : the dictatorship of truth," a documentary narrated by literary critic Edward Said; "Marxist poetry : the making of The battle of Algiers," a documentary featuring interviews with Pontecorvo, Gatti, and composer Ennio Morricone, among others; interview with Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film's influence, style, and importance; production gallery; theatrical and rerelease trailers. Disc 2: "Remembering history," a documentary on the Algerian experience of the battle for independence; "États d'armes," a documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the Algerian rebellion; "The battle of Algiers : a case study," a video piece featuring U.S. counterterrorism experts; "Gillo Pontecorvo's return to Algiers," a documentary in which the filmmaker revisits the country after three decades of independence.
- Venice Film Festive, Golden Lion, 1966; International Film Critics Award, 1966; City of Venice Award, 1966.
- Contains:
- Gillo Pontecorvo, the dictatorship of truth.
- Marxist poetry, the making of The battle of Algiers.
- Remembering history.
- États d'armes.
- Battle of Algiers, a case study.
- Gillo Pontecorvo's return to Algiers.
- ISBN:
- 9781604654608
- 1604654600
- OCLC:
- 744675829
- Publisher Number:
- 715515085113
- CC2042BD The Criterion Collection
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