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.
Cast
Crew
Recommendations
view all
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Fuck
Shoah
Seduced and Abandoned
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories
Naqoyqatsi
Heart of a Dog
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
The Untold History Of The United States
Harmontown
Visions of Light
Doc of the Dead
Audrey
A Plastic Ocean
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
A Decade Under the Influence
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
The Unknown Known
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Directed by John Ford