Algeria's Bloody Years
Directed by Malek Bensmaïl, Patrice Barrat, Thierry Leclère
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Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.Read moreLess
Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.
The story
Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.
Cast & crew
Chadli BendjedidSelf (archive footage)
Mohamed BoudiafSelf (archive footage)
Houari BoumédièneSelf (archive footage)
Abdelaziz BouteflikaSelf (archive footage)
Ali DilemSelf
Boudjemaâ Karèche
Ali HarounSelf
Hubert VédrineSelfExplore the crew
- Writer
- Malek Bensmaïl
- Director
- Malek Bensmaïl
- Writer
- Patrice Barrat
- Writer
- Thierry Leclère
- Editor
- Corinne Godeau
- Director
- Patrice Barrat
- Director
- Thierry Leclère
- Writer
- Samia Chala
- Director of Photography
- Mustapha Belmihoub
- Director of Photography
- Bachir Sellami
- Director of Photography
- Baudoin Koenig