To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)
• May 12th, 1972 • 1h 40min
Drama, War
Overview
A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Cléo from 5 to 7
Released on: 1962-04-11
Drama
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
The Forgotten Hill
Released on: 1996-05-19
Drama
At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...
Guns of Freedom
Released on: 1961-01-01
Documentary, War
This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...
Yasmina
Released on: 1961-01-01
Drama
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...
Noua
Released on: 1972-01-02
Drama, History, War
In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...
Indochine
Released on: 1992-04-15
Drama, Romance
In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...
The Unknown Hero
Released on: 2016-03-18
Drama, War, Thriller
In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...
Papillon
Released on: 1973-12-16
Crime, Drama
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
A Captain's Honor
Released on: 1982-12-29
Drama, History, War
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...
The Price of Freedom
Released on: 2007-07-07
War, Drama
In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and ...
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Released on: 2008-10-22
Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...
Jamila, the Algerian
Released on: 1958-12-09
Drama, History, War
Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...
Sawt Echaâb
Released on: 1961-01-01
War, Documentary
“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...
Intimate Enemies
Released on: 2007-10-03
Drama, War, History
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
The Battle of Algiers
Released on: 1966-09-08
Drama, War, History
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is se...
The Blessed
Released on: 2017-12-13
Drama
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...
Dark Night, October 17, 1961
Released on: 2005-06-07
TV Movie, Drama, History
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s re...
Black and White in Color
Released on: 1976-09-22
Drama, Comedy, War
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their Ger...
Coup de Torchon
Released on: 1981-11-04
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, an...
The Rooster’s Crow at Noon
Released on: 1996-07-01
Drama, History
While being imprisoned on a remote island for leading a naval-yard workers' strike, a man reminisces...