The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers

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A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Battle of Algiers:

Brahim Hadjadj
Jean Martin
Yacef Saâdi
Fouzia El Kader
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir

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A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.

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Baltimore Sun - 10/10 by Michael SragowThe movie is a marvel - bold, lucid and succinct (even at 123 minutes). It's also harrowing and moving in its depiction of noncombatant men, women and children caught between terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Empire - 10/10 by David ParkinsonHas a vigour, a commitment and an intelligence that is absent from too much modern cinema.
Charlotte Observer - 10/10 by Lawrence ToppmanThe film's proudest boast is that nary a frame comes from documentary footage...Every riot, every explosion, every seemingly spontaneous gundown in the streets of Algiers was staged, then shot in black-and-white stock that intentionally echoes newsreel footage.
Miami Herald - 10/10 by Marta BarberAn extraordinary movie that ruffled many feathers when it first came out. Almost 40 years later, it retains the poignancy it delivered back then. Its message is not lost in our present state of affairs.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertIt may be a deeper film experience than many audiences can withstand: too cynical, too true, too cruel and too heartbreaking. It is about the Algerian war, but those not interested in Algeria may substitute another war; The Battle of Algiers has a universal frame of reference.
Village Voice - 10/10 by Michael AtkinsonA prototype of news-footage realism, the film makes shrewd use of handheld sloppiness, misjudged focus, overexposure, and you-are-there camera upset; the payoff is the scent of authentic panic.
Christian Science Monitor - 10/10 by David SterrittLike all masterpieces, it speaks to later ages as powerfully and intelligently as to its own.
Los Angeles Times - 10/10 by Kenneth TuranAchieves its success through a combination of attitude and technique, uniting, to exceptional effect, a way of viewing the world morally while looking at it physically.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumIt's one of the best movies about revolutionary and anticolonial activism ever made, convincing, balanced, passionate, and compulsively watchable as storytelling.
Boston Globe - 10/10 by Ty BurrThe Battle of Algiers is a thinking person's action film in which there are winners -- but no heroes.

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