Algeria, Unspoken Stories

Algeria, Unspoken Stories

160 mins | Documentary | Feb. 27, 2008

When independence is declared in 1962, the minority communities of Jewish and European origin flee Algeria. Four people of Muslim ascendency searching for the truth about their own lives evoke the last decades of French colonization, the years of war, from 1955 to 1962. Hatred and friendship lead us through a hidden memory: their relationships with their Jewish and Christian neighbours. The foundational myths of the new Algeria are revisited, but will they succeed in getting to the bottom of their own legends?

Algeria, Unspoken Stories

160 mins | Documentary | Feb. 27, 2008

Algeria, Unspoken Stories
When independence is declared in 1962, the minority communities of Jewish and European origin flee Algeria. Four people of Muslim ascendency searching for the truth about their own lives evoke the last decades of French colonization, the years of war, from 1955 to 1962. Hatred and friendship lead us through a hidden memory: their relationships with their Jewish and Christian neighbours. The foundational myths of the new Algeria are revisited, but will they succeed in getting to the bottom of their own legends?
Producers Naouel Films, 1001 Productions
Original title Algérie, histoires à ne pas dire
Directors Bahïa Bencheikh-El-Fegoun, Jean-Pierre Lledo
Writers Jean-Pierre Lledo

Cast

Aziz Mouats

as Himself

Katiba Hocine

as Himself

Kheireddine Lardjam

as Himself