The Battle of Algiers - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Battle of Algiers"
La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
Timing:
2:2 (122 min)
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Actors and characters
Fusia El Kader
Character Halima
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Character Petit Omar
Larbi Zekkal
Character Combattant FLN
Nour-Eddine Brahimi
Character Responsable FLN
Si Mohamed Baghdadi
Character Larbi Ben M'hidi
Franco Moruzzi
Character Mahmoud (uncredited)
Tomasso Neri
Character Captain Dubois
Samia Kerbash
Character Fathia
Ugo Paletti
Character Captain
Gene Wesson
Character (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the memoir book by Yazev Saadi — one of the leaders of the National Liberation Front, who produced the film and played himself in it.
- In France, the film was considered propaganda and banned from screening until the end of the decade.
- The realistic depiction of the partisan movement made "The Battle of Algiers" a favorite film of various radical terrorist groups, including Andreas Baader (one of the founders and leaders of the German far-left terrorist organization "Red Army Faction") and the "Black Panthers" (an American far-left organization of African Americans whose goal was to promote the civil rights of the Black population).
- At the beginning of the American invasion of Iraq, a screening of the film was organized at the Pentagon as a documentary of guerrilla warfare in an Arab metropolis.
- The realistic depiction of the guerrilla movement made "The Battle of Algiers" a favorite film of various radical terrorist groups, including Andreas Baader (one of the founders and leaders of the German far-left terrorist organization "Red Army Faction") and the "Black Panthers" (an American far-left organization of Black people aiming to promote the civil rights of the Black population).
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