Algerian here. One of reasons that the scenes were so raw with the actors is because they have experienced the same thing the movie depicted just a few years before that. People were really emotional when the film crew was filming. When they saw the actors dressed in french military fatigue, they felt that they were fighting real soldiers. Many of these actors were actually tortured and jailed by the french during the revolution. Yacef saadi the main actor was playing himself!!
@@bigpoppa4562 The guy started with " Algerian here" means not a native speaker but still using a very good english , you could have understood "playing himself" as evdy did, playing his own role. You came up with a condescending point of view instead, actually playing yourself and flexing your single nerve.
How can a film be so evocative and yet so objective in a documentary style. Unquestionably one of the greatest films ever!!! No film will ever be made like it again!
I watched this movie since I was 3 years old, twice a year, now I am 28, so I watched it 56 times. Every time I watch it, I feel the pain and the pride at the same time. Long live mother Algeria. 💪💪💪✌✌✌
This one of the best movies ever made, and one of the most important- completely relevant to the present day War of Terror etc etc. Everyone should see this.
I was born in France from Algerian parents, you would be stunned how that masterpiece is quite unkown in France. I watched the movie as a kid on a VHS bought from Algeria since the movie was been forbidden in France until 2004, I never saw it played on French TV or cinemas, that shows how deep the wounds go. For those who don't know the actor in the movie who shows to the French where the most wanted Algerian leader of the rebellion "Ali La pointe" is hidden is the real guy, who was the actual FLN leader of Algiers, his nefiew died next to Ali la pointe in the explosion at the end since they refused to surrender. It's a movie you can't forget once you watched it.
The real guy is Yacef Saadi called Amar in the movie, he was the chief of the FLN in the battle of Algiers, he wrote the book when he was in prison and he played his role and he is the owner of the movie
One thing to insert between this film and WW2 is that many of the French military leadership in Algeria were veterans smarting from losing in Vietnam and took out their vengeance on the Algerians from a perspective of, we can't lose this...
Did you watch the whole documentary? Spike Lee says it all when he talks about the same piece of music being used for the bombing of the kasbah and the retaliation. The filmaker is mourning the loss of life on both sides, period on both sides. Also, Julian Schnabel puts it well when he sayd grief has no nationality. That is the essence of the film right there.
Grief has no nationality is almost an offense to us. An assailant wouldn't know what grief is unless he's spoon fed it. Violence is at times the only language that those who consider themselves demi-gods understand and so it was
A tough movie for me to watch because i wanted to look like the French with the cool beret and camo uniform, but i knew the Algeriens held the high ground morally.
The actor who played one of the main characters, Ali La Pointe, suffered some psychological issues years after the movie was shot (he went too much into his character, that he couldn't play any other role). I don't think he played movies after the Battle of Algiers.
@@Seniorjackl'acteur n'était pas un fermier, c'était un commerçant, il a joué dans d'autres films, le film intitulé l'opium et le bâton et patrouille a l'est les deux films racontent la révolution algérienne
You guys ought to go there. I promise you a rewarding experience. I would recommend to spend as much time as the circumstances would permit. Not only would you confirm or correct any perception(s) you may have; the beauty of Algeria will blow your minds. It is the largest country in Africa and 10th in the world. I wouldn't miss one square inch of Algeria if I were you. And I thank you for taking the time to read my friendly message. By the way, you wouldn't find a more hospitable people anywhere 😊
The Battle of Algiers the best political movie ever done , this movie is teaches in military universities how to organize revolutionaries and how to quell street war because all content of movie is real story
we notice that the shots are more efficient than the film, Schindler's List has moments, it is hard to believe that it is a filming because the scenes have been pushed to the extreme
thank you for video i see it was filming american director on 2004 So Irak invade date on 2003, Abou Ghraib and occupation of Bagdad is an extension of french doctrine during battle of Alger US Army invite Roger Trinquier for instruction of cadres for insurrectionnel war So, when One of those director said french are like nazi's, he must think about Abu Ghraib and, before critics, how did you live if you count 120 attentats in one month and many kills Robert Lacoste told to General Massu, chief of 10th Parachutist Division, to restore peace in Alger cause police is out during this conflict
You need no balance when you tell a true story. France massacred and perpetrated genocides againt the algerian civilians. France killed 8 million algerian through her barbarian savage colonialism, shame on her and there was no injustified killings against french people in Algeria , but only acts of heroism and self-defense against the murderers soldiers who oviously deserved what they got . Viva l'Algérie. Tahya Aljazair ✌ Glory and eternity to our free martyrs.
The problem with this film, it"s from 2 point of view : Algerians and the French army. But there is not the point of view of "pied-noirs" (French born in Algeria).
Perhaps but it would be too complex to include pieds-noirs into a film which talks about the war of independence. As Stone said, they don't mention the massacres of Europeans, nor do they mention the massacre of Algerians by FLN or the Massarce of Algerians by Legionnaires. There is a reason they call it "The Dirty War".
Yea and they also don't mention how the OAS with Raoul Salan and Pierre Lagaillarde were the ones who bombed the Pieds Noirs in an attempt to place the blame on the FLN so the French Army would retaliate and be forced to hold on to Algeria. LOL
Wrong....get a life Moron from the Future who slept through History Class...... pied-noirs are not South African Apartheid people...Many Pied-Noirs where taken as White Slavery captives by the Barbary Pirates and their raids on Southern Europe since the time of the Moors in Spain.....LOLolol
After discovering Albert Camus, I fell in love with Algiers. The film, The Battle of Algiers, was the icing on the cake. The tragedy is the awful people running the Country now. Independence has not served them well. They need to rediscover People Power 😅
In 1954, life expectancy was 47 years. now a day it’s 77 years. Only for this reason the independance served. Come to visite the cowntry and you see the real situation, how people live. You’ll be welcome
And after the revolution did the terrorism stop? The wide-eyed acceptance of Spike Lee and Oliver Stone notwithstanding, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is the simpleminded abstraction of the self-righteous.
The Nazis regarded the French Resistance as terrorists, but among their own people they were most likely seen a liberators. So, in that case as well "one man's terrorist s another man's freedom fighter." Who were right? French resistance or Nazis. And if you are sympathetic to the French resistance would that be "a simpleminded abstraction of the self-righteous"?
Spike Lee and Oliver Stone are not interested in deep introspection. They are comfortable with a simplistic moral equivalence. The real world is more interesting and more disgusting than jingoistic revolutionaries believe it to be.
Objective? Are you serious? It glorifies even glamorizes terrorism. It's a very passionate and eloquent political statement. Having your legs blown off transcends politics and art as far as I'm concerned!
The terrorists were the ones imposing their rule over people who wanted this parasitic foreigners out. If you don’t want an insurgency don’t invade simple as that.
Donnez nous vos chars vos avions avec lesquels vous bombarder et brûler nos villages au napalm on vous donnera nos couffins c'était la phrase qu'a dit Larbi Ben mhidi aux parachutistes français qui l'avaient arrêté. Oeil pour œil et dent pour dent .
Terrorism? So brown people fighting for their land is terrorism and the colonizers are victims? The same shit narrative happened with Iraq and Palestine, Vietnam, Cambodia, Syria, Afghanistan and many more.
