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Title:

La bataille d'Alger [videorecording DVD] = The battle of Algiers / un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scénario de Franco Solinas ; production Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi.

Format:

[videorecording DVD] =

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

3 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. ; 19 cm.)

Subject:

War films.
Historical films.
Jabhat al-Taḥrīr al-Qawmī--Drama.
Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Drama.
Kasbah (Algiers, Algeria)--Drama.
Torture--Algeria--Drama.
Terrorism--Algeria--Drama.
Autonomy--Drama.
Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)
DVDs held by the Library.

Other Authors:

Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006.
Solinas, Franco, 1927-1982.
Haggiag, Brahim.
Martin, Jean, 1922-2009.
Saadi, Yacef, 1928-
Kerbash, Samia.
Paletti, Ugo.
Gatti, M. (Marcello)
Morricone, Ennio.
Casbah Films.
Igor Film.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: Disc 1: theatrical and re-release trailers; production gallery. Disc 2: "Gillo Pontecorvo: the dictatorship of truth," a 37 min. documentary made in 1992 about Pontecorvo; The making of The battle of Algiers (51 min.); Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone discuss the film (17 min.). Disc 3: "Remembering history," a 69 min. documentary about the Algerian Revolution; "États d'armes," 28 min. of excerpts from Patrick Rotman's 3-part documentary, L'Ennemi Intime, which focuses on the horror of the Revolution; "The battle of Algiers, a case study" a 25 min. conversation about the contemporary relevance of The battle of Algiers between former National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism Richard A. Clarke, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Michael A. Sheehan, and Chief of Investigative Projects for ABC News, Christopher E. Isham; "Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers" (1992) (58 min.). 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.

Contents:

disc. 1. The battle of Algiers (121 min.) -- disc. 2. Pontecorvo and the film -- disc. 3. The film and history.

Summary:

Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 249

ISBN:

9780780028876
0780028872

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55859304

UPC:

037429195628

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)