Additional information for The Battle of Algiers, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 8, 1966. The film is being distributed by Unknown and has not yet been rated. The Battle of Algiers has a total running time of 121 minutes.
G
Canada
K-16
Finland
(Banned)
France
18
Spain
15
Sweden
X
UK
16
West Germany
M
Australia
14
Brazil
16
Norway
Not Rated
USA
15
South Korea
VM18
Italy
M/12
Portugal
121min
The Battle of Algiers
International
The Battle of Algiers
UK
The Battle of Algiers
USA
A Batalha de Argel
Brazil
A Batalha de Argel
Portugal
Az algíri csata
Hungary
Bitka za Alžir
Serbia
Bitwa o Algier
Poland
De slag om Algiers
Belgium
I mahi tis Algerias
Greece
I mahi tou Algeriou
Greece
Kampen om Algerie
Norway
La bataille d'Alger
France
La batalla de Argel
Spain
Maarakat madinat al Jazaer
Algeria
Schlacht um Algier
West Germany
Slaget om Alger
Sweden
Slaget om Algier
Denmark
Taistelu Algeriasta
Finland
September 03, 1966
Italy
September 08, 1966
Italy
March 13, 1967
Sweden
September 01, 1967
Denmark
September 20, 1967
USA
February 18, 1970
Belgium
August 14, 1970
West Germany
May 14, 1971
Finland
October 21, 1971
France
June 01, 1978
Spain
June 01, 1983
Portugal
April , 1999
Italy
May 14, 2000
Hong Kong
December 01, 2003
UK
January 09, 2004
USA
May 15, 2004
France
May 19, 2004
France
September 02, 2005
Brazil
May 11, 2007
UK
December 10, 2009
Greece
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An account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history.
The opening scene is of a man who has presumably been tortured by some French military personnel. The commander (Col. Mathieu played by Jean Martin) enters and tells the man to put on a French uniform. The man sheds a tear. He is obviously being forced into something he doesnt want to do. In the next scene you have the commander again speaking to some young men who are hidden in a wall. Ali is obviously going to be a main character. We see him running through the streets. Some French young men trip him. Ali is a bit of a hot head and smashes the French boys face.We see a man in a prison being beheaded with the guillotine. Ali witnesses this.Cut to Ali (played by Brahim Hadjadj) being approached by a young boy with a note. He is given instructions on how to carry out a terrorist plot. He is tricked into shooting a French officer but the gun was empty. He meets one of the leaders of the resistance movement, the Jaffar. In the next scene a drunken man is beaten by a bunch of little kids.In the next scene Ali shoots a middle-aged man.A FLN wedding is performed. The French put them in charge of civic affairs but it seemed like a religious wedding.Ali appears to be among a group of young men who infiltrate the police headquarters and kill several police personnel. This is only the beginning of a series of attacks against the police. There are casualties on both sides.The women use their outward signs of piety (burkas) to hide weapons. A group of women dress up like western women. Bombs are distributed. The women go into the French sectoran area that looks as though it may have been pulled out of Paris with fashionably dressed people, sidewalk cafés and people enjoying their leisure time.The French respond to all of the Terrorist activities with a show of force. For a moment the commandant looks like an Amway salesman describing what is exactly like a multilevel marketing scheme in his explanation of a terrorist cell. The FLN is ordered to strike but the French have a hidden agenda to find out whom the resistance fighters might be. The French captain is very cleaver to know that the insurrection would come after the terrorist bombings.Another bombing at a crowded horse race: Some of the French adults attack an Algerian child.There are two scenes with reporters asking questions. In the first one a high-level resistance fighter is questioned. In the second, the captain is confronted with some difficult questions. One of the things they are asked about is if they use torture. The captain answers in a diplomatic manner and then the audience sees several acts of brutal torture with the Algerians as the victims.In the closing scene we see the captain negotiating with the resistance fighters who want a written promise that they will have a fair trial if they surrender. The fighters ask him to send it up in a basket. The resistance fighters send a basket containing a bomb. It explodes killing or injuring at least one soldier. Jaffar is captured but Ali is still at large.The closing scene shows Ali with his friends. They hear soldiers coming and all but the woman hide in the wall-hiding place. The French soldiers plant a bomb outside the hiding place. We saw this scene before at the beginning of the movie. Apparently the Algerian we saw in the opening scene who shed a tear led the French to Ali. The bomb explodes.The final scene takes place some time later in 1960. There is a riot going on with soldiers shooting into the crowds. The film ends with the captain narrating that on July 2, 1962 a new nation of Algeria was born.
Gillo Pontecorvo
Director(s)
Gillo Pontecorvo
Franco Solinas
Writer(s)
Antonio Musu
producer
Yacef Saadi
producer
Fred Baker
executive producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Ennio Morricone
Gillo Pontecorvo
Composer(s)
Ali La Pointe (as Brahim Haggiag)
Brahim Hadjadj
Col. Mathieu
Jean Martin
Djafar (as Saadi Yacef)
Yacef Saadi
One of the girls
Samia Kerbash
Captain
Ugo Paletti
Halima
Fusia El Kader
Omar
Petit Omar
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Fathia (uncredited)
Michele Kerbash
(uncredited)
Franco Morici
Captain (uncredited)
Tommaso Neri
(uncredited)
Gene Wesson
Director(s)
Franco Solinas
Writer(s)
producer
Yacef Saadi
producer
Fred Baker
executive producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Gillo Pontecorvo
Composer(s)
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