Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Lost Mountain
Overview
On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830, hastened to reinforce its military contingent in the four corners of the country and to prevent the advance of the rebels. A little Chaoui, born in a mountainous region of the country, sees his placid childhood collapse in the middle of a crossfire that he does not understand. The story, inspired by real testimonies, is constructed with images from the archives of the French army. From this apparently dissociated dialogue between image and word arises a sensitive homage to the memory that rests in the archives and to the ignored voice of its protagonists.
Director and cast
More films
Remembering History (2004)
Documentary · History · War · N/A
Made just three years after the end of the French-Algerian War (1954-1962), Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers instantly ignited discussions of this complex historical period. Using the film as a point of reference, this 2004 documentary attempts to reconstruct the Algerian experience of the battle for independence.
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Cast
- Mohammed Harbi, Yacef Saâdi, Benjamin Stora
Anatomy of a First (1966)
Adventure · Documentary
In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini traveled to the Atakor massif, in the Hoggar mountain range of the Sahara in southern Algeria. There, they attempted a challenging first ascent: the Takouba spur, one of the peaks adjacent to Garet El Djenoun, a legendary mountain in the Hoggar massif, first climbed by Roger Frison-...
- Runtime
- 32m
- Cast
- Lucien Bérardini, Pierre Mazeaud, René Vernadet
Fedayin, the fight of Georges Abdallah (2020)
Documentary · N/A
A leading figure in the Palestinian cause and the fight against imperialism, the Lebanese communist activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah had been languishing in French prisons for thirty-eight years—a unique case in France. Arrested in Lyon in 1984 with false papers, he was sentenced two years later to four years in prison for possession ...
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Cast
- Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Jean-Marc Rouillan, Maurice Abdallah
Twïza, L'Aventure Algérienne (2019)
Documentary
In Tamazight culture, "Twïza" symbolizes a gathering for sharing and mutual support. This is precisely what Thibault Dion's film explores – January 2019 – as five French climbers land at Constantine airport. While they initially thought they would simply be opening climbing routes in eastern Algeria, this group of climbers from Grenobl...
- Runtime
- 27m
- Cast
- Emir Berkane, Emmanuel Tessanne, Saïd Mahmoudi
The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting (1983)
Documentary · Drama · N/A
“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” (1977). Powerful poetic essay based on archives, in which Assia Djebar – in collaboration with the poet Malek Alloula and the composer Ahmed Essyad – deconstructs the French colonia...
- Runtime
- 57m
- Director
- Assia Djebar
Comments
Talk about the film with other members