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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
1966
Director
Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring
Jean Martin
Saadi Yacef
Brahim Hadjadj
Tommaso Neri
Runtime
136 minutes
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No bastard ever won a revolutionary anti-colonial struggle by dying for his country, he won it by making the strong armies of colonialism die for theirs.
Pontecorvo’s revolutionary classic remains a benchmark in cinematic realism as well as a case study in representing political insurgency. A history of Algeria’s three-year fight for independence from its French colonizers, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS chronicles the escalating violence between French military forces and the Algerian guerrilla movement. With its documentary-style immediacy and its vivid depiction of the struggle between oppression and resistance, this is one of the most influential and important of all political films.
THE MORRICONE CONTRIBUTION:
Military snare drums, urgent brass, and nervous ostinatos collide with mournful North African-inflected melodies. Half funeral procession, half revolutionary battle cry.
Pontecorvo’s revolutionary classic remains a benchmark in cinematic realism as well as a case study in representing political insurgency. A history of Algeria’s three-year fight for independence from its French colonizers, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS chronicles the escalating violence between French military forces and the Algerian guerrilla movement. With its documentary-style immediacy and its vivid depiction of the struggle between oppression and resistance, this is one of the most influential and important of all political films.
THE MORRICONE CONTRIBUTION:
Military snare drums, urgent brass, and nervous ostinatos collide with mournful North African-inflected melodies. Half funeral procession, half revolutionary battle cry.