During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another. In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. His father Albert, a grocer, will have to adapt to this new country.
Charles X, the French king, takes this as an insult to French national pride and orders a naval blockade of the Algerian coast. Major Lecoq is to build an elite unit with these wayward soldiers who are exposed to war, torture and death.
A patrol of the National Liberation Army must convoy a French soldier taken prisoner to the Tunisian border. To stay faithful to his pacifist values, he will do something radical. This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation. Three French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion in the midst of the Algerian war. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the ...
Algeria has a special and painful place in French national memory, and vice versa.
An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains.
French Algeria 1944 Surcharged,Sc 187,VF Precanceled (D1) $0.99 +$1.54 shipping. This fascinating and emotionally gripping documentary by director Amine Rachedi narrates the story of Louisette Ighilahriz, a young Algerian woman who joined the national liberation ... When this has little effect, a military expedition is prepared. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the ... One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house.
A few hours ... French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War. The events are taking place in southwestern... A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité. A story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of... Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder. Français : Algérie française est une ancienne colonie de la France (1830-1848), puis elle est intégrée administrativement à la France (1848-1962). A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.
During the Algerian War of Independence, mistrust abounds between the drafted local Algerians and metropolitan French forming a French army platoon. This film chronicles ... Two decades later, the Algerian war of independence is ... A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age. Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding.
A French colony for 132 years until 1962, Algeria was known as "the country of martyrs" across the Arab world as the resistance movement cost an estimated one million Algerian lives. After an unsuccessful assassination, a terrorist and his wife hide on a remote island in the house of a friend who doesn't suspect anything. Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. The French in Algeria: 1830-1936: A French army, landing in June 1830, easily overpowers the forces of the dey. Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence.