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Patrick RotmanAlgeria: The INTIMATE ENEMY - Violences in the war of Algeria (2002)

40 years ago, on March 19, 1962, the agreements of Evian put an end to the war of Algeria. From 1954 to 1962, France made, without never really saying it, the war in Algeria. As Algeria was France, France could not be in war against itself. Two officer and soldier million, called, made officially only operations of maintenance of law and order on the own territory. The adversary was interior, the enemy intimates…

Realization:
Patrick Rotman

With:
Paul Aussaresses
Rachid Abdelli
Jacques Allaire
Henri Warbler
Henri Bourdet
Jacques Zero
Pierre Alban Thomas
Jean-Yves Templon
Edmond Sanquer

Scenario:
Patrick Rotman

Documentary in 3 parts:
- Pacification (52 ')
- Gears (52 ')
- States of weapons (100 ')


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Producer: Patrick Rotman
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: FRENCH
Keywords: Algeria

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Reviewer: Sprinkle - - June 4, 2009
Subject: It's not Propaganda
Whereas we can't expect a proud nationalist named "Napoleon" to feel otherwise, it was not the intention of the filmmakers to present a straight-up history, and they were under no obligation to present the crimes of Algerians.

The idea here was that the French were the occupiers and therefore the aggressors, and this war has been swept under the rug of France (while France hypocritically makes it a crime if you feel there was no Armenian "genocide"). The interviews with the veterans were very powerful; how can it be propaganda if we get the events directly related by the French military men who were there??

Two links shed more light on this documentary:

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Algerian_Film_14920.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104374/

Of further interest: This 1992 film's author, Patrick Rotman, would go on to write the screenplay of a feature film based on the subject entitled "L'ennemi intime" (Intimate Enemies). A Reuters story [http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL0464123620071004] infotms us that "Director Florent-Emilio Siri... also shows the brutality of nationalist 'fellaghas', including the massacre of an entire village suspected of harboring collaborators or the face of a man whose nose and lips they have cut off for the crime of smoking."
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Reviewer: Napoléon - - June 12, 2007
Subject: propaganda!!
the FLN muslisms tortured civilians and kids as well as the french army.