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The battle of Algiers [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection ; distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, c2004.

Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 -- Drama.

Criterion collection 249

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Bataille d'Alger [videorecording (DVD)]

Battaglia di Algeri [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

3 videodiscs (121 min. + extras) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.

Special features (Disc 1): New high-definition digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions ; production gallery ; theatrical and re-release trailers ; new and improved English subtitle translation.

Special features (Disc 2): "Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth" (1992): A 37-minute documentary, narrated by literary critic Edward Said ; exclusive 51-minute documentary on the making of The Battle of Algiers, featuring new interviews with the director, cinematographer, composer, editor, actors, and film historians ; "Five Directors" (17 mins., 2004): Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film's influence, style, and importance.

Special features (Disc 3): "Remembering History" (69 mins., 2004): An exclusive documentary that reconstructs the Algerian experience of the battle for independence, featuring interviews with historians and revolutionaries, including military leader Saadi Yacef ; "États d'Armes" (2002): A 28-minute documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the rebellion ; "The Battle of Algiers: A Case Study" (25 mins., 2004): Richard A. Clarke, former national counterterrorism coordinator and author of "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," discusses the film's relevance with Michael A. Sheehan, former State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, in a conversation moderated by Christopher E. Isham, chief of investigative projects for ABC News ; "Gillo Pontecorvo's Return to Algiers" (58 mins., 1992): The filmmaker revisits the Algerian people after three decades of independence.

Includes a 56-page book featuring excerpts from Saadi Yacef's original account of his arrest, a reprinted excerpt from the film's screenplay, a reprinted interview with co-writer Franco Solinas, a new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, and biographical sketches on key figures in the French-Algerian War.

1.85:1 aspect ratio. Enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.

In French & Arabic with optinal English subtitles.

Producers, Antonio Musu, Saadi Yacef ; writer, Gillo Pontecorvo, Franco Solinas ; directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti and Fusia El Kader.

Focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.

Political films.

Films français.

Films italiens.

Films politiques.

Films de guerre.

Pontecorvo, Gillo, 1919-2006.

Haggiag, Brahim.

Martin, Jean, 1922-

Saadi, Yacef, 1928-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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