The Battle of Algiers La bataille d' Algiers

DVD 2013

One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle Of Algiers; by Gillo Pontecorvo, 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, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Algiers (Algeria) History Drama

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Drama Feature films Political films Video recordings War films

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 249

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ISBN:

9781604657722
0780028872

Edition:

Widescreen édition

Description:

3 videodiscs (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
monochrome
digital
optical
stereo
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Bataille d' Algiers
Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture)

Notes:

Special features: Disc 1: Production gallery; Theatrical trailers. Disc 2: Gillo Pontecorvo : the dictatorship of truth (documentary of the director presented by literary critic Edward Said); Marxist poetry : the making of The battle of Algiers; Five directors (interviews with filmmakers Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film's influence, style, and importance). Disc 3: Remembering history (documentary on the Algerian experience of the battle for independence); "Et́ats d'armes" (documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the Algerian rebellion); A case study (program featuring U.S. counterterrorism experts Christopher Isham, Richard A. Clarke, and Michael A. Sheehan); Return to Algiers (documentary in which the filmmaker revisits the country after three decades of independence). Booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French-Algerian War by political science scholar Arun Kapil
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966
Based on a true story by Saadi Yacef
Production designer, Sergio Canevari ; edited by Mario Serandrei and Mario Morra ; director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; music, Ennio Morricone and Gillo Pontecorvo
Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader, Omar
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, monoaural
In French and Arabic; with optional English subtitles

Contents:

Disc 1. The film
Disc 2. Pontecorvo and the film
Disc 3. The film and history

Control Number:

1906918

UPC:

037429195628
715515109611

Other Authors:

Casbah Films
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Haggiag, Brahim
Igor Film
Kerbash, Samia
Martin, Jean, 1922-2009
Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006
Saadi, Yacef, 1928-2021

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