Focuses on 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 resor...
Bibliographic Details
| Corporate Authors: |
Casbah Films,
Igor Film,
Criterion Collection (Firm) |
| Other Authors: |
Saadi, Yacef, 1928-,
Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006,
Solinas, Franco, 1927-1982,
Haggiag, Brahim,
Martin, Jean,
Morricone, Ennio |
| Format: | Video
DVD
|
| Language: | French Arabic |
| Language Notes: | In French and Arabic with new and improved English subtitles. |
| Published: |
Irvington, NY :
Criterion Collection,
[2004]
|
| Edition: | Director-approved special ed. 3-disc set. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
249.
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill. : DVD videodiscs)
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to reviews of this title online
|