They Joined the Front
Overview
In this film, four key witnesses, who live in Algeria today, as full-fledged Agerians, show us what this colonization was really like, so "beneficial" that they themselves perceived it as the oppression of one people by another. Three of them, who today would be called "pieds noirs," in other words, those Europeans to whom France, the occupying power, gave the best land, taken from the indigenous populations, work, and exclusive rights, not shared by the entire population, lived rather well compared to the majority of the "natives." The fourth was far from all that and lived in Argentina. Annie Steiner, Felix Colozzi, Pierre Chaulet, and Roberto Muniz explain to us what led them to show solidarity with the struggle of the weak, the humiliated, and to risk their freedom and their lives by committing to liberate Algeria.
Release date
01/01/2012
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Original Soundtrack
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Algeria, Year Zero
The Pan-African Festival in Algiers
Raï Story: From Cheikha Rimitti to Cheba Djenet
Aleph
Noua
Un bain en hiver
The Battle of Algiers
Les Mains Libres
Surgeon during the Algerian War
Algeria: Drink, Smoke and Love
Mémoires du 8 mai 1945
El Ouafi Boughera, The marathon runner of history
Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Algeria in Flames
L'Orientalisme
La Langue de Zahra
The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting
L'Algérie de Gustave Guillaumet (1840-1887)
Bandits
Intimate Enemies