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Here We Drown Algerians

Here We Drown Algerians

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 19, 2011

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

60%

Original Title

Ici on noie les Algériens

Production Companies

Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, INA

Director

Yasmina Adi

Description

In response to the call of the Front de libération nationale (F.L.N., the National Liberation Front), thousands of Algerians from Paris and its surroundings march on October 17, 1961, to protest against the curfew imposed on them. This peaceful demonstration will be violently put down by the police. 50 years on, the filmmaker sheds light on this still taboo subject. Blending testimony and unseen archive footage, history and memory, past and present, the film relates the different stages in these events and reveals the strategy and methods applied at the highest level of the French state: manipulation of public opinion, the systematic challenge of every accusation, the censoring of information in order to prevent investigation.