La bataille d' Alger [videorecording] = the Battle of Algiers / Casbah Film présente ; un film de Gillo Pontecorvo ; scénario de Franco Solinas ; production, Casbah Films, Igor Film ; produit par Yacef Saadi avec la collaboration de Igor Film-Rome.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2303D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French, Arabic Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 249.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]Description: 3 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. ; 18 cm.)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1604657723
- 9781604657722
- Battle of Algiers
- Battaglia di Algeri (Motion picture).
- Production designer, Sergio Canevari ; edited by Mario Serandrei and Mario Morra ; director of photography, Marcello Gatti ; music, Ennio Morricone and Gillo Pontecorvo.
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Northport Library | DVD | WORLD Battagli | Available | 33111008302040 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best Film" honors at the 1966 Venice Film Festival. The bulk of the film is shot in flashback, presented as the memories of Ali (Brahim Haggiag), a leading member of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), when finally captured by the French in 1957. Three years earlier, Ali was a petty thief who joined the secretive organization in order to help rid the Casbah of vice associated with the colonial government. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell what soon becomes a nationwide revolt. After the flashback, Ali and the last of the FLN leaders are killed, and the film takes on a more general focus, leading to the declaration of Algerian independence in 1962. Director Gillo Pontecorvo's careful re-creation of a complicated guerrilla struggle presents a rather partisan view of some complex social and political issues, which got the film banned in France for many years. That should not come as a surprise, for La Battaglia di Algeri was subsidized by the Algerian government and -- with the exception of Jean Martin and Tommaso Neri as French officers -- the cast was entirely Algerian as well. At least three versions exist, running 135, 125, and 120 minutes. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Based on a true story by Saadi Yacef.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
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); "États 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.
disc 1. The film -- disc 2. Pontecorvo and the film -- disc 3. The film and history.
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.
The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, 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 techniques used to combat them.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, monoaural.
In French and Arabic; with optional English subtitles.