Algeria, Year Zero

Film

Algeria, Year Zero

10.0196540mDocumentary
DZ · France
Director
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Year
1965

Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. The film was banned in France and Algeria but won the Grand Prize at the Leipzig International Film Festival in 1965. Out of friendship, the production company Images de France sent an operator, Bruno Muel, who later declared: "For those who were called to Algeria (for me, 1956-58), participating in a film on independence was a victory over horror, lies and absurdity. It was also the beginning of my commitment to the cinema."

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Directed by

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Jean-Pierre Sergent