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Battle of Algiers (DVD)

Yacef Saadi (actor), Jean Martin (actor) and Gillo Pontecorvo (director)
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Review

Sight and Sound, 12/31/2003, p.66, "The film itself remains as powerful as ever, both on a formal level and as political drama."

Uncut, 12/01/2003, p.160, "A thrilling film, shocking and often unsubtle, it's also an eerily prescient snapshot of 21st-century global politics."

Los Angeles Times, 01/19/2004, p.C4, "[W]hat's most impressive about this 1965 epic of revolution is the realization that its compelling imagery and its powerful insights are so continually relevant that this film isn't back, it's never really left us."

Total Film, 01/01/2004, p.132, "Its vitality and immediacy are undiminished."

Entertainment Weekly, 01/16/2004, p.51, "[The film] casts an eerie shadow over a world rocked by the underground politics of fear and rage."

USA Today, 10/12/2004, p.3D, "[T]he 1965 classic is a revealing look at the mind-set of terrorists that is so relevant to current events that it was screened at the Pentagon."

Ultimate DVD, 06/01/2007, p.107, 4 stars out of 5 -- "As Pontecorvo looks at the impact of war on all those who live through it, it remains desperately relevant today."

Title Note

"The Battle of Algiers" was the first feature film produced in Algeria by Algerians (although the director and much of the film's crew were Italian).

Screened at 1966 Venice Film Festival.

Production companies: Igor Film (Rome) and Casbah Films (Algiers).

Distribution company: Magna Films.

Academy Award Nominations: Best Director, Best (Original) Story and Screenplay.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region (unknown)
3-Disc Set
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - French/Arabic

Disc 1:
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
2. Re-release Trailer
Documentary - 1. RETURN TO ALGIERS
Text/Photo Galleries;
Poster Gallery

Disc 2:
Additional Release Material:
Documentaries - 1. THE MAKING OF THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
2. THE DICTATORSHIP OF TRUTH
Featurette - 1. Directors On THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS

Disc 3:
Additional Release Material:
Documentaries - 1. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS AND HISTORY
2. ETATS D'ARMES
Featurette - 1. HOW TO WIN THE BATTLE BUT LOSE THE WAR

Product Notes

Gillo Pontecorvo's presents a harrowing, documentary-style depiction of the Algerian's people's struggle to liberate themselves from France between 1954 and 1962. The film creates a stunning illusion of realism by combining actual newsreel footage with staged sequences featuring amateur and professional actors playing characters based on real people (including Saadi Yacef, the one-time leader of the FLN in occupied Algiers). With it's depiction of political torture and violence retaining every bit of the impact they had upon the film's original release, THE BATTLE FOR ALGIERS was re-released theatrically in 2003 to great acclaim and reevaluation. Winner of 11 International Film awards.

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