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Film Screening: The Battle of Algiers @ Goethe-Institut

May 13, 2008 by Libby Send to a Friend Send to a Friend

May 21, 2008
6:30 pm

part of the Revolution is in the Streets: 1968 Film Series

The Battle of Algiers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3M2feqJk8

Algeria/Italy, 1966, 121 min., 35 mm, English, b/w, Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Screenplay: Gillo Pontecorvo and Franco Solinas Cast: Brahim Hagiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef

Introduced by Philipp Gassert, deputy director, German Historical Institute

This documentary-style film focuses on Algeria’s violent war of independence from French rule at the end of the fifties, a pivotal event in the formation of a European New Left.

Gillo Pontecorvo’s film copies the styles of Italian neorealism, French cinema vérité and Soviet socialist realism. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Film
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 6:30 pm
Goethe-Institut Washington, GoetheForum
English
$6/$4
+ 1 202 289 1200

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Patrick Says:

Banned in France upon its release!!!! DeGaulle and co. couldn’t handle it!

May 17, 2008 at 11:36 pm
chairman meow Says:

The movie chronicles, tediously at times, the rise of a radicalized Islamic state. But don’t worry, we can blame the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys for that one.

May 18, 2008 at 7:15 pm