Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control
2022 · 53m · N/A Documentary, History, War
Overview
World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa, remains part of the territory controlled by the Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain. A strict colonial order is maintained: the French of European origin rule, while local Jews are stripped of French citizenship and discrimination against the mainly Muslim population increases.
Director and cast
- Charles de Gaulle as Self (archive footages)
- Winston Churchill as Self (archive footages)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self
- François Darlan as Self
- Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footages)
- Henri Giraud as Self (archive footages)
- Benjamin Stora as Self
- Clémence Harimi-Zaradez as Self
- Alain Chouraqui as Self
- Jean Laloum as Self
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