Essays on Battle of Algiers

One of the most influential cinéma vérité movies in history, Pontecorvo’s ‘The Battle of Algiers’ (1966) rawly portrays the Algerian nationalist battle for independence (1954-1962). The Italo-Algerian movie starts in 1957 with a terrified FLN recruit surrendering to the torture of French paratroopers and revealing...

In the film Battle of Algiers, it showed the active tensions of the colonialism in post war with the French. This film was based on the accounts of Saadi Yacef, one of the leaders in Algeria specifically the leader of Front de libération nationale (FLN)...

In Gillo Pontecorvo’s movie The Battle of Algiers, music plays an essential role in each scene of the film. For example, when there’s French soldiers marching through the streets the music has a mysterious feel to signify that there is an attack imminent. When you...

Pontecorvos Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvos Battle of Algiers, though filmed in the late 1950s, remains one of the most powerful and emotionally stimulating films of the modern age. The realism captured by the director of photography, Marcello Gatti, laid the blueprint for directors and...

War movies are often dramatized, either in a positive political. Some glorify it while others emphasize a portrayal the hardships caused, and lives lost. Others cast a positive light on one side while dehumanizing or criticizing the other. Ivan’s Childhood and the battle of Algiers...

This short commentary considers an extract from Pontecorvo’s 1966 The Battle of Algiers, a film which creates an account of the year long struggle between the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) and the French colonial powers for control of the French occupied and settled Algerian...

The film The Battle of Algiers, published in 1966, adds a powerful insight to imperialism and colonial revolution. The film takes place in the city of Algiers during the time when France controlled Algeria but when revolutions were taking place. The film covers the time...