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Pacification en Algérie (2002)

Pacification en Algérie (2002)

Drama War Documentary
Release Date: 2002, January 1
Directors: André Gazut
Countries: France
Production: Article Z
Cast: Ahmed Ben Bella, Si Azzedine, Loic Collet, Maurice Denoue, Père Henri Péninou, Marc Garanger, Benoist Rey

Overview:

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…