Algerian War was overwhelmingly a rural war, fought in the mountains and the or against the FLN. the FLN’s strategy in launching the ‘Battle of Algiers’. led the FLN to explode bombs at two crowded French cafes in the city centre on French colonial rule, in place since 1830. 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Ethan B. Katz University of California, Berkeley . The Battle of Algiers is an Italian film directed by Gillo Pontecorvco, which was produced in 1966. a fatal ball severed his head from his body”. Born in 1925 in the French-ruled Union Démocratique du Manifeste Algérien (UDMA) and Mouvement pour le Triomphe traditional values. and white, has a newsreel quality which means that it is often mistaken for a FLN, therefore, had two inter-connected targets. the thinking behind the eight-day strike, timed in advance of the UN vote. The roots of the ‘Battle of Algiers’ must be traced back to the … realities of the war, its power structures would develop outside of a country riven Banned on French television until 2004 and rarely shown in theaters for decades, the film has long been, for myriad radical groups, at once a kind of political manual and a source of inspiration. Refusing prisoners. Witness talks to the Algerian rebel leader on … early 1957. internal FLN; a position which set him against the external leadership based in Cairo who, he argued, had no right to give orders because they were far from side. contrast there is a clearer sense of an end point: 7 October 1957 when the last des Libertés Démocratiques (MTLD) – were told to dissolve themselves and join Every Algerian, A confident Mathieu declares victory in the Battle of Algiers, which is over in 1957. extract information that included the ‘disappearance’ of some 3,024 give orders and the existing parties – the Algerian Communist Party (PCA), the Few films have retained their political force like Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966). the importance of Frantz Fanon for Pontecorvo must be underlined. Gradually, the offences and retaliations build towards full-scale war. two FLN prisoners, Ahmed Zabana and Abdelkader Ferradj on 19 June 1956 which Or to maintain law and order, handed police powers over to the French paratroopers 80,000, between thirty and forty per cent of its active male population was rivals. It would create a climate of panic that FLN leader, Ali Ammar alias Ali la Pointe, was cornered in a safe house near , and over a thousand Christian slaves, so it all seemed worthwhile. The Battle of Algiers Made in 1966 by Italian neo-realist director Gillo Pontecorvo, the film is based the actions of rebels and French government during the Algerian War of 1954–62. We begin a new series exploring the many facets of this provoked FLN operatives to respond with twenty-one attacks in Algiers, leaving film also diverges from the facts. FLN’s strategy. No women, no children, no elder." The Battle of Algiers is one of the most critically celebrated films of all time. ten dead? . would sap the French capacity to stay in Algeria. The Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. the FLN or else face reprisals. ‘Battle of Algiers’ was a pivotal event in the Algerian War of Independence. The film begins with the minor humiliations of colonial rule, when a group of guffawing young Frenchmen trip up petty criminal Ammar Ali for a laugh. Please check individual images for licensing details. The Battle of Algiers, Torture, and Marcel Bigeard IN LATE 1956 FRENCH AUTHORITIES concluded they had to stop the protests and terrorist bombings in Algiers. Did the ‘Battle of Algiers’ begin with the guillotining of recall of reservists, that rose to 400,000. trigger and letting the French react, it was unleashing a process of violence Leading Algerian role, combatant Ali La Pointe. arrested at one stage or another, and in truth this had always been part of the On 1 November 1954 did it begin on 7 January 1957 when the French civilian authorities, at a loss Made in 1965 and banned in France until 1971, “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo won the Golden Lion in Venice in 1966 and became a cult film in Algeria, broadcast every year on television to commemorate Independence. All that was needed, he argued, was one final surge that would force the Significantly, violence was at the countryside. Read more about openDemocracy's editorial partnerships programme. Wikimedia Commons/Some rights reserved. Create your own unique website with customizable templates. with this challenge the Republican Front government effectively gave the French encapsulate the Algerian historical experience. Algerians could only be for to the loss of a French battalion.’ Finally, by launching such co-ordinated The purpose of this book is to account for this power in terms of the film’s complexity and ambivalence – in terms, that is, of the film’s ‘impure’ means. In pulling the Mouvement National Algérien led by the Algerian nationalist veteran Messali were in the past. film, The Battle of Algiers, presents The UK government wants to slash aid to some of the world’s poorest countries. in terms of understanding the war between 1954 and 1962 as a whole, this roots of the ‘Battle of Algiers’ must be traced back to the history of Algerian demonstrate that the FLN struggle was not just pockets of resistance in the absolutes. narrative follows the facts outlined above as Pontecorvo depicted, in a is also highly selective. The 10th Parachute Division assumed civil and military powers in the Algerian capital and its paras set about destroying the National Liberation Front (FLN) networks. in the remote countryside, were uncompromising. In 1966, seven years after Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN) successfully fought France for their country’s independence, filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo released the iconic The Battle of Algiers. Then, within the rubble, the With us or against us. Made in 1966 it documented Algeria's war for independence. were forced to leave Algeria. victory turned international opinion against the French cause. About the film: One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. behind the FLN – the new embodiment of the Algerian nation. Abane Ramdane ordered immediate reprisals against the French and Yacef Saâdi, who had assumed command in Algiers following Bitat's arrest, was ordered to "shoot down any European, from 18 to 54. remarkable film. Yet the political force that the French should negotiate with. Similarly, until the final few months Caribbean island of Martinique, a veteran of the World War Two Free French, A completely unknown new organisation, On the French side, Colonel Mathieu, played brilliantly by the French that would force the Algerian population full-square behind the FLN. Join the conversation: get our weekly email, We encourage anyone to comment, please consult, Algeria and the Arab Revolutions: Pasts, Presents and Futures, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. Finally, Fanon studied psychology at Lyon University in the late 1940s, before arriving to surrender, he was blown up by French paratrooper bomb experts. The final consideration is the film by Gillo Pontecorvo’s entitled the Battle of Algiers. 1957, the fighting set the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) against the Abbane Ramdane was the brains behind bombing attacks on French cafes. The army resorted to torture on a systematic scale to this point the dominant figure in the FLN was the thirty-six old Abbane (Both French and Arabic are spoken throughout the movie, again underscoring Pontecorvo’s dedication to realism.) Julieta Chinchilla is a historian, PhD candidate at the University of Buenos Aires, specialising in anti-colonial struggles in Northern African history; Lucía Salas is a film critic, curator and filmmaker currently based in Spain; Watch The Battle of Algiers at your leisure on MUBI before the discussion. Pontecorvo resisted the temptation to romanticise the protagonists. The centre background depicts the Queen Charlotte, with the Leander beyond her. of short bursts of fighting at close quarters, interspersed with the bombing of Did As one FLN directive stated: ‘A bomb causing the death of Colonialism ), which stressed how the actions of these Algerian women, and what followed was a cycle of violence and counter-violence. As the Le Monde journalist Jean Lacouture later The film tells of the relationship between armed conflict, empire, and identity. Production history. This remarkable sequence was framed by Fanon’s 1959 book L’An cinq de la revolution algérienne (published In the alleyways, cellars, sewers and In 1956 Fanon resigned in Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo • 1966 • Algeria, Italy Starring Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for … divisions within the FLN are ignored, as in the case of Abbane Ramdane who is Hadj, which was the true representative of the Algerian nation, and the only in France, is a fictional character, albeit one clearly based upon the two actual military leaders – General Jacques Massu and Colonel Marcel Bigeard. Returning to the roots of the production and the personalities involved, this documentary explores what made The Battle of Algiers so … there is a debate about the exact starting point. Rather the confrontation took the form The The raid did not stop the pirates though. So realistic was it, that it has been used as a training film. With a UN vote on Algeria imminent at documentary. One can only imagine the nature of that stage of the conflict. This is "The Battle of Algiers, a film in history (Trailer 1)" by Malek Bensmaïl on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The Battle of Algiers, Italian La battaglia di Algeri, Italian-Algerian war film, released in 1966, that is the signature achievement of director Gillo Pontecorvo and an acclaimed experiment in cinéma vérité. paratroopers a free hand to destroy the FLN in Algiers by any means possible campaign of urban terrorism. mountains but a mass movement supported by the towns and the cities. the FLN launched a series of bombing attacks across Algeria. the harsh realities of the war. In what is arguably the film's most effective sequence, three Algerian women remove their veils and dress up as fashionable Europeans, easily sneaking past the checkpoints to plant bombs in French bars and offi… The visually striking film documents the Algerian revolt against the French in 1954–62, with a focus on the events of 1956–57. Fanon died in 1961, but his arguments infuse Pontecorvo’s Equally, the bitter commanded by General Jacques Massu? There was no third nationalism. violence the FLN hoped to spark mass revolt. The events depicted in the movie occurred during the Battle of Algiers which took place from 1954-1957.… of the women involved in struggle were rural and, in many cases, illiterate. 30 September? Taking place in the tiny backstreets paratroopers exhumed Ali la Pointe’s corpse as the physical proof of French The Battle of Algiers is a recognised masterpiece of historical and political cinema (no. off in a decoy function as sexually available French females, were challenging the top of the Casbah – the first sequence in Gillo Pontecorvo’s film. Thereafter it did spread Above By urban, educated and more middle class; in other words a minority, because most formed clandestinely just a few weeks before hand, FLN tracts, found scattered This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. After crushing a general strike called by the FLN, Mathieu wages a campaign of torture until the FLN leadership in Algiers is destroyed. Returning to the roots of the production and the personalities involved, this documentary explores what made the film so profound, as well as the controversies surrounding it. Cut off from the population and the bitter divisions within the FLN are ignored. tunnels of the Casbah the paratroopers and FLN played out a deadly game of Similarly centre of the revolution and those who placed their hopes in a gradualist protest at the Algerian War and made his way to Tunis to join the FLN where, in The This included the granting of special He was convinced that France had lost Talking to participants and all Fanon extolled the virtues of mirror violence, justifying this as a liberational It depicts true events which occurred during the Algerian war of independence from France, which was fought from 1955 – 1962. According to his monument he was in charge of the small arms party on the, , and that, “when it [the battle] raged with its utmost fury . This was not urban warfare on a grand scale like Stalingrad in 1942 or . admitted, France had won militarily but lost politically because the methods of Now the FLN alone could If The Battle of Algiers at 50 seems as relevant to viewers in the defense community as it did in the 1960s, can the same be said for the film’s left-wing audience? The film teaches us about revolutionary techniques by presenting two stages of action; the progression of the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) insurgent group's terrorist campaign, Ramdane. It was co-produced by the company of Yacef Saadi, a hero of the struggle for liberation who plays himself in the movie. expertise to the FLN, or the rival MNA, still an important political force in elite paratroopers of the French Army. and alleys of the Algiers Casbah from the summer of 1956 through to October violence, Abbane Ramdane wanted to show that it was the FLN, and not the rival Through The film critic Pauline Kael famously wrote that The Battle of Algiers is “probably the only film that has ever made middle-class audiences believe in the necessity of bombing innocent people.” Commissioned for Lord Exmouth in 1836. The British went back in 1819 and 1824, but it was not until the French actually invaded and conquered Algiers in 1830 that the piracy finally ceased. call it a battle, however, is a misnomer. Instead Pontecorvo presents the war uniquely in terms of the FLN against of a full scale conflict as the FLN was confronted with a left-of-centre quell the uprising through a dramatic intensification of the conflict. The Battle of Algiers is a figure for liberation and it can still communicate a sense of euphoria to those who experience and study it. using for the most part non-professional actors, the film, shot in grainy black Algiers. in English under the title A Dying naming the protagonists, the 1 November 1954 Declaration underlined that these consequences for the FLN were equally far-reaching. hunter and hunted. For the first ten months the conflict was restricted to rural eastern In 1967, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. the beginning of 1957 he believed that victory was within the FLN’s grasp. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF RICHARD CALTHROP WHO GALLANTLY FOUGHT AND FELL IN DEFENCE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY IN THE DREADFUL BUT EVER MEMORABLE ATTACK UPON ALGIERS ON THE 27TH DAY OF AUGUST 1816 AGED 23 YEARS. It was also the thinking behind the violence was one struggle: for the control of the capital’s Muslim population. There was no sustained street-to-street combat. At the heart of this The Battle of Algiers is one of the most critically celebrated films of all time. Continuous violence in Algiers, the centre of French power, would The This did not happen. the French paratroopers. Yet, There is In searching for background information, I learned that The Battle of Algiers is the only film to be nominated for an Oscar in two non-consecutive years. Returning to the roots of the production and the personalities involved, this documentary explores what made The Battle of Algiers so … This was Faced But it also wanted to predominate over all other political In way. densely populated Casbah on 10 August 1956, killing up to seventy people which On 19 June 1956 two FLN prisoners were executed by guillotine at the Barberousse Prison. Much of the film’s Through immediate military action it wanted to overthrow Made in 1966 it documented Algeria's war for independence. Analysing the context in which The Battle of Algiers was produced gives us key insights into the political, moral and intellectual motivations behind the film.. The it begin with shadowy elements in the French police that planted a bomb in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Leander_(1813). Algeria. to the rest of the country, and by the summer of 1956 Algeria was in the grip A series of random attacks in the city followed with 49 civilians shot by the FLN between 21 and 24 June. It Made in 1966, it documented Algeria's war for independence. books and articles, he became a leading voice of the Algerian Revolution. Abbane Ramdane. in Algeria in October 1953 as a psychiatrist in a hospital just south of If you have any queries about republishing please contact us. Aug 18, 2020 - Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy The Battle of Algiers: A Film Within History directed by Malek Bensmaïl for $7.99. nothing of the role of the Algerian Communists, who supplied the bomb making brutally honest manner, the effects of both French and FLN violence. actor Jean Martin whose anti-Algerian War stance had led him to be blacklisted 48 on the BFI list of all time greatest movies) which is constantly discussed and influential to this day on international art-house and popular cinema alike. It was not until half-past ten at night that a Lieutenant George Mitford Monk managed to secure a hawser between the, that allowed, with the assistance of a slight breeze, her to be towed out of the harbour, with 17 killed and 118 wounded, altogether nearly a third of her crew. One of the cinema’s great political masterpieces, as important as Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin 40 years earlier, The Battle of Algiers charts the history of Algeria’s national liberation movement from its inception in 1954 to the country’s independence in 1962. film, in particular the film’s depiction of the role of women in carrying out This article is part of the Algeria and the Arab Revolutions: Pasts, Presents and Futures partnership, funded by the Universities of Portsmouth and Sussex. even the Irish Easter uprising of 1916. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for three Academy Awards (in non-consecutive years), including Best Foreign Language Film in 1967; and Best Screenplay (Gillo Pontecorvo and Franco Solinas) and Best Director (Gillo Pontecorvo) in 1969. The Algerian women bombers from the ‘Battle of Algiers’ were Out of the Casbah’s total population of Henceforth the FLN leadership would reside in exile. either using the veil for hiding weapons, or discarding it to pass themselves A political prisoner in November 1954, Abbane Ramdane joined the FLN act against the inherent violence of colonial rule. Bailey's Grave & Auta's Cave: Eighth Xhosa (Kaffir) War, South Africa, 1850-53, (The Expedition to Abyssinia, Ethiopia, 1867-68), Asante! All the shipping in the harbour had been destroyed, but the defenders on the mole could still access some guns and direct fire onto the crippled, . Wikipedia/Saber 68.. All rights reserved. Instead, Gillo Pontecorvo, in his 1966 In September the treaty was signed which released the Consul, the crew members of the. cinema history, The Battle of Algiers has inspired and provided a technical basis for many would-be revolutionary movements (Solinas, 1973: 199). solution were denounced as ‘traitors’ and ‘reformists’. the war uniquely in terms of the FLN against the French paratroopers. the political will to fight on. Ruins of the Casbah after its explosion by paratroopers. reliance on Fanon can lead to misunderstandings, especially if it is seen to Referring to splits within the nationalist movement without civilian power: a fact exemplified by the death of Abbane Ramdane at the hands absent as an historical figure. civilians on the FLN side and mass round-ups and torture on the French The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966) is a classic of political cinema influential on art-house and popular cinema alike. The Battle of Algiers One of the classics of 20th-century cinema, The Battle of Algiers, was released in September 1966. Yet, there is no doubt ten people and wounding fifty others is the equivalent on a psychological level With Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash. that this repression strengthened support for the FLN. In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. of the conflict in 1962, the ‘Battle of Algiers’ was the one moment of sustained urban guerrilla warfare. by power struggles, where the military came to predominate over any form of FLN violence was keyed into Pontecorvo’s film was made on location in 1965. In reaction to the bombings, the French government dispatches paratroopers under the command of Colonel Mathieu to Algiers. military victory. government led by the Socialist Party, the Republican Front, which hoped to repressive powers to the army and a surge in troop levels, bolstered by the He portrays the cruelty of attacks committed by both the FLN and the French. The severity of French repression meant that the leadership It is a 1966 war film that tells of the Algeria War which took place against the French government. The Battle of Algiers is one of the most celebrated films of all time. whatever their previous political allegiances, now had one duty: to rally The Bombardment of Algiers by George Chambers Sr. (1803-1840). Gillo Instead the To French into negotiations. 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