La bataille d'Alger [videorecording] / Casbah-Film presente ; un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scenario de Franco Solinas ; production Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Director-approved two-disc Blu-ray special ed.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Gillo Pontecorvo, the dictatorship of truth. Marxist poetry, the making of The battle of Algiers. Remembering history. Etats d'armes. Battle of Algiers, a case study. Gillo Pontecorvo's return to Algiers.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Based on: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger / Saadi Yacef. Program notes (55 p.) 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 in container. 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; "Etats 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.
Contents:
disc 1. The battle of Algiers -- disc 2. History and the film.
Summary:
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 cafes, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style.
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