"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor: Noël Favrelière deserted to free a young Algerian Muslim prisoner who was going to be executed, and René Técourt, to continue the fight for French Algeria alongside the OAS ultras. Two emblematic examples, which describe in a direct, carnal way, what happened there.

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist A...

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

Albert Camus, who died 60 years ago, continues to inspire defenders of freedom and human rights acti...

In 1967, Visconti came to Algiers for the filming of The Stranger with Mastroianni and Anna Karina. ...

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's in...

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders o...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...