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Algeria's Bloody Years

Jan 1, 2002 · 2h 38m
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Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.

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CAST

Chadli Bendjedid
Self (archive footage)
Mohamed Boudiaf
Self (archive footage)
Houari Boumédiène
Self (archive footage)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Self (archive footage)
Ali Dilem
Self
Boudjemaâ Karèche
Self
Ali Haroun
Self
Hubert Védrine
Self
Directed by Malek Bensmaïl

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Status
Released
Original language
FR
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Article Z, Canal+, CNC, PROCIREP, Sundance Institute
Country
DZ, FR, GB

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