#The Battle of Algiers

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It’s hard enough to start a revolution, even harder to sustain it, and hardest of all to win it. But it’s only afterwards, once we’ve won, that the real difficulties begin.

The Battle of Algiers (1966) dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

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LA BATTAGLIA DI ALGERI // THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966) dir. GILLO PONTECORVO

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ITALIAN NEOREALIST CINEMA MEETS THE FERVENT SOCIO-POLICIAL CLIMATE OF '50s NORTH AFRICA.

FILM: "The Battle of Algiers" (1966)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marcello Gatti

DIRECTOR: Gillo Pontecorvo

SCREENPLAY: Franco Solinas

GILLO PONTECORVO: "The writings of Frantz Fanon were also very important for Franco Solinas, the screenwriter, and myself. We were there for a few months before the liberation and we saw everything, the hope and the joy, and we remember young people talking on the street all night. During the long months of preparation and of talking with the people, we saw that the struggle against colonialism diminished the mental state and the customs of the people. To fight colonialism they had to change themselves from what colonialism had made them."

Sources: www.proquest.com/docview/204845804, The New Arab, Los Angeles, Times, X (formerly Twitter), The New Review of Film & Television, various, etc...

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The Battle of Algiers (1966)

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1966.

France versus Saadi Yacef and the Battle of Algiers.

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The Battle of Algiers (1966)

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Jean Martin in The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

Cast: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin,  Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Mohamed Ben Kassen. Screenplay: Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo. Cinematography: Marcello Gatti. Production design: Sergio Canevari. Film editing: Mario Morra, Mario Serandrei. Music: Ennio Morricone, Gillo Pontecorvo. It's a truth as old as fable, as ingrained as myth: Our sympathies go out to the oppressed, the underdog. Which is why the attempt to find "impartiality" or "objectivity" in a docudrama like Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers -- or to criticize the film for lacking it -- is so futile. It's a truth that even nations need to learn: When, for example, Israel ceased to be the underdog in the Middle East, the sympathies were bound to shift to the Palestinians. It's also a lesson that demagogues unfortunately do tend to learn: Make your followers believe that they're the oppressed, the victims of some other group, then you can lead them by the nose in the direction you prefer. In any case, what makes The Battle of Algiers so potent, so continually relevant is that director Pontecorvo and his co-screenwriter Franco Solinas are so meticulous in their portrayal of a dynamic: that of oppressed and oppressor. Never mind that the techniques of both sides are so frequently heinous: We cringe when the Arabs send women out to plant bombs that kill innocent noncombatants, just as we flinch from the sight of French soldiers torturing suspects. What matters here is the pattern of action and reaction. What matters with The Battle of Algiers is not so much the brilliance of its filmmaking -- its artful use of non-actors like Brahim Hadjhadj, who plays Ali La Pointe, and actual NLF commander Yacef Saadi, as Djafar, or little-known professionals like Jean Martin, as Col. Mathieu; its powerful restaging of events in the places where they occurred; the cinematography of Marcello Gatti; the smartly used score by Ennio Morricone -- as the film's ability to trace the dynamic of a particular event, a dynamic that continues to underlie events as they unfold around the world, perhaps in the United States itself. Is there another 57-year-old film that remains as essential to our understanding of the way the world works?

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A Batalha de Argel (1966)

Gillo Pontecorvo

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And after the revolution did the terrorism stop? The wide-eyed acceptance of Spike Lee and Oliver Stone notwithstanding, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is  the simpleminded abstraction of the self-righteous.

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'The Battle of Algiers' on Max and Criterion Channel

Gillo Pontecorvo merges documentary and drama in his 1966 masterpiece The Battle of Algiers (France, 1966), his shattering story of Algeria’s struggle for independence from France. Shot in a second generation neo-realist style on the streets of Algeria with a cast of professionals and non-professionals, it follows the experience of Ali Le Pointe (Brahim Hadjadj), a longtime petty thief in the…

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