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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages ; 19 cm.)
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.
disc 1. The battle of Algiers -- disc 2. History and the film.
un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scénario de Franco Solinas ; production Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi.
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.
Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar.
Blu-ray disc, region A, widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1); mono.
Arabic and French dialogue, with English subtitles.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; editors, Mario Serandrei & Mario Morra ; music, Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo ; production designer, Sergio Canevari.
Venice Film Festive, Golden Lion, 1966; International Film Critics Award, 1966; City of Venice Award, 1966.
Gillo Pontecorvo, the dictatorship of truth
Marxist poetry, the making of The battle of Algiers
Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 249