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
Indochine
Released on: 1992-04-15
Drama, Romance
In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...
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...
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...
July Dust
Released on: 1967-01-01
Drama
“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...
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...
One Roof, One Family
Released on: 1982-02-07
Family, Drama
Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...
Traps
Released on: 1994-08-11
Drama
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...
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...
Algeria in Flames
Released on: 1958-01-02
Documentary, War
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
Wild Reeds
Released on: 1994-06-01
Drama, Romance
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges f...
Lion of the Desert
Released on: 1981-04-17
History, War, Drama
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...
The Olive Trees of Justice
Released on: 1962-06-06
Drama
The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill....
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...
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...
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...
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 Desert Ark
Released on: 1998-01-28
Drama
The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A yo...
An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War
Released on: 2010-09-20
Documentary, War, TV Movie
It's the unforgivable story of the two hundred thousands harkis, the Arabs who fought alongside the ...
Intimate Enemies
Released on: 2007-10-03
Drama, War, History
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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...