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The Battle of Algiers ( Italian: La battaglia di Algeri; Arabic: معركة الجزائر, romanized : Maʿrakat al-Jazāʾir) is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. It is based on action undertaken by rebels during the Algerian War (1954–1962) against the French government in North Africa, the most ...
The Battle of Algiers (1966) by Gillo Pontecorvo. The battle of Algiers was produced in 1966 directed by Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo and written by Franco Solinas as well as Gillo Pontecorvo. It's based on events by rebels during the Algerian War. It received critical acclaim worldwide, [46] [47] and was banned from being shown in France ...
Gillo Pontecorvo. Burn! Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian: [ˈdʒillo ponteˈkɔrvo]; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966).
Kapò ( Italian: [kaˈpɔ]) is a 1960 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo. It was one of the first narrative films to deal explicitly with the subject of the Holocaust, with graphic depictions of concentration camps which made it controversial at the time. A co-production of Italian, French, and Yugoslavian ...
Algiers, Algeria. Nationality. Algerian. Occupation. Actor. Years active. 1966–1986. Brahim Hadjadj (إبراهيم حجاج), (January 31, 1934, in Médéa in Algeria – March 8, 1996, in Algiers) was an Algerian actor. [ 1] He is most notable for the roles in the films The Battle of Algiers, Patrouille à l'Est and L'opium et le baton.
Ali Ammar ( Arabic: علي عمار ; 14 May 1930 – 8 October 1957), better known by his nickname Ali la Pointe, was an Algerian revolutionary fighter and guerrilla leader of the National Liberation Front who fought for Algerian independence against the French colonial regime, during the Battle of Algiers . Ali lived a life of petty crime ...
Henri Alleg, denounced it in La Question, which along with La Gangrène, by Bachir Boumaza, and Italian Communist Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 film The Battle of Algiers were censored in France. Torture was also evoked during the trial of ALN activist Djamila Boupacha, defended by lawyer Gisèle Halimi.
He subsequently worked as second unit director for Sergio Leone and for Gillo Pontecorvo on “The Battle Of Algiers” on which he shot many of the crowd and action scenes that the film is famous ...