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The Battle of Algiers

7.9 121 mins Drama   War   History   1966
Igor Film   Casbah Film  
Director(s): Gillo Pontecorvo

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Casts of The Battle of Algiers

Brahim Hadjadj

as Ali La Pointe

Yacef Saâdi

as El-Hadi Jaffar

Fouzia El Kader

as Halima

Jean Martin

as Colonel Philippe Mathieu

Mohamed Ben Kassen

as Petit Omar

Larbi Zekkal

as Combattant FLN

Rouiched

as The Drunk Man (uncredited)

Noureddine Brahimi

as Responsable FLN

Si Mohamed Baghdadi

as Larbi Ben M'hidi

Abderrahmane Brahimi

as Le Marié de la Casbah

Fatiha Djoudi

as La Mariée de la Casbah

Franco Moruzzi

as Mahmoud (uncredited)

Tomasso Neri

as Captain Dubois

Samia Kerbash

as Fathia

Ugo Paletti

as Captain

Gene Wesson

as (uncredited)

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