One hero, the people (2020)
• December 11th, 2020 • 1h 21min
Documentary
Overview
This film is the product of a seven-year research journey on the popular insurrection of December 1960 in Algeria and the failure of the counter-insurrection, thanks to the Wretched of the Earth themselves.
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