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Pacification en Algérie

Pacification en Algérie

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2002

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Documentary, War, Drama

User Score

100%

Original Title

Pacification en Algérie

Production Companies

Article Z

Director

André Gazut

Description

Where does submission to authority end? Where does individual responsibility begin? Each person confronted with violence asks themselves these questions. Through the testimonies of conscripts but also of Algerian activists, a memory of this war is constructed. The atrocities of the Algerian war are known. However, conscripts were pressured not to speak out upon their return. General de Bollardière was punished for opposing torture. Guy Mollet, President of the Council, denied any shameful practice before Parliament…