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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: La
    title: bataille d'Alger
    sub title: The battle of Algiers
  title info:
    title: Battle of Algiers
  name:
    name part: Pontecorvo, Gillo
    name part: 1919-2006
  name:
    name part: Solinas, Franco
    name part: 1927-1982
  name:
    name part: Haggiag, Brahim.
  name:
    name part: Martin, Jean
    name part: 1922-2009
  name:
    name part: Saadi, Yacef
    name part: 1928-
  name:
    name part: Kerbash, Samia.
  name:
    name part: Paletti, Ugo.
  name:
    name part: Gatti, M. (Marcello)
  name:
    name part: Morricone, Ennio.
  name:
    name part: Casbah Films
  name:
    name part: Igor Film
  name:
    name part: Criterion Collection (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: War films.
  genre: Historical films.
  genre: Foreign films.
  genre: Documentary-style films.
  genre: Film adaptations.
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Fiction films.
  genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: Blu-ray special ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: ara
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages ; 19 cm.)
  abstract: 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 cafš, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style.
  table of contents: disc 1. The battle of Algiers -- disc 2. History and the film.
  note: un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scénario de Franco Solinas ; production Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi.
  note: Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
  note: Based on: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger / Saadi Yacef.
  note: 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.
  note: 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.
  note: Videorecording.
  note: Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar.
  note: Blu-ray disc, region A, widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1); mono.
  note: Requires Blu-ray player.
  note: Arabic and French dialogue, with English subtitles.
  note: Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
  note: Director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; editors, Mario Serandrei & Mario Morra ; music, Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo ; production designer, Sergio Canevari.
  note: Venice Film Festive, Golden Lion, 1966; International Film Critics Award, 1966; City of Venice Award, 1966.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Torture
    geographic: Algeria
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    geographic: Algeria
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Autonomy
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    geographic: Algeria
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1954-1962
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    geographic: Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria)
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
  classification: PN1997 .B383 2011
  classification: 791.43/72
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger
    name:
      name part: Saadi, Yacef,
      name part: 1928-
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gillo Pontecorvo, the dictatorship of truth
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Marxist poetry, the making of The battle of Algiers
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Remembering history
  related item:
    title info:
      title: États d'armes
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Battle of Algiers, a case study
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gillo Pontecorvo's return to Algiers
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 249
  identifier: 9781604654608
  identifier: 1604654600
  identifier: CC2042BD The Criterion Collection
  identifier: Midwest Tape
  identifier: 715515085113
  record info:
    record content source: TEFMT
    record creation date: 110624
    record change date: 20151202122833.0
    record identifier: in00002700848