Return to Algiers

Return to Algiers

114 mins | Drama | April 12, 2000

Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.

Return to Algiers

114 mins | Drama | April 12, 2000

Return to Algiers
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers Canal+, Alexandra Film
Original title Là-bas... mon pays
Directors Alexandre Arcady
Writers René Bonnell, Alexandre Arcady

Cast

Antoine de Caunes

as Pierre Nivel

Samy Naceri

as Issam

Mathilda May

as Nelly Azera

Nozha Khouadra

as Leila/Amina

Pierre Vaneck

as Blanville

Lorànt Deutsch

as Versanti

Wadeck Stanczak

as Francis

Elsa Zylberstein

as La femme de Pierre Nivel

Matthias Van Khache

as Étienne

Dora Doll

as Paula Azera

Mostéfa Stiti

as Fadel

El Kebir

as Le frère de Fadel

Jean-Claude de Goros

as Henri Nivel, le père de Pierre Nivel

Françoise Armelle-Chiche

as Adrienne Nivel, la mère de Pierre Nivel

Marie Guillard

as Alexandra

François-Xavier Noah

as Pierre Nivel, jeune

Raphaël Lenglet

as Issam, jeune

Saïd Amadis

as Nader Mansour

Daniel Saint-Hamont

as Le narrateur du film