The Battle of Algiers

1966

Italian

8.1

♡ 38

99%

Gillo Pontecorvo Director

Tommaso Neri as Captain

Mohamed Ben Kassen as Petit Omar

Rouïched as The Drunk Man

Franco Morici as (uncredited)

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.