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Toute l'Algérie du monde

Toute l'Algérie du monde

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2001

Runtime

0h 53m

Original Title

Toute l'Algérie du monde

Production Companies

ARTE, TV5 Monde, PROCIREP, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Angoa-Agicoa, INA

Director

Malek Bensmaïl

Description

The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has fallen and the popular “hirak” movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more democratic era, the country appears as a colossus with feet of clay, which has failed enhance their independence. How did this isolation come about? From the “dark decade” of terrorism to the fall of Bouteflika, via 9/11 or the Arab revolutions, this documentary sheds light on Algerian foreign policy in recent decades, while deciphering the strategy of Western powers towards it.