A film by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
With: Yorgo Voyagis, Leila Shenna, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine), Sissani (Mohamed Djediat), Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir, Yahia Benmabrouk, Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri), Sid Ali Kouiret, Nadia Talbi
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the « Algerian War » is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this « Red All Saints’ Day » of November 1, 1954. At its center, Ahmed gradually awakens to political awareness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, a symbol of the new Algeria, and that of Miloud, half-mad haranguer, half-prophet, incarnation of Popular memory of the revolt, the liberation of Algeria and its people.
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