Story of liberation ..

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2005)

This movie is powerful, real and well done, it was turned just few years after the real events, in the same places and with natural actors without experience but they played so much well their role, I think because they lived the same or similar events during this liberation war, one of them played his own role (Yassef Saadi).
Pontecorvo is a maniac of physical resemblance between the actor who is playing the role and the real person in the story, because of that the movie looks like a documentary which tell us the suffering of the algerian people during the french colonial period and their fight for independence, especially in the battle of Algiers which is one of the most important battles in the liberation war.
After 130 of occupation and many political attempts to get algerian independence peacefully, the algerian people get just more killed and more suffering!! Some people have to be careful to compare that war for independence with terrorism ..etc . You have to read history to understand!
We have seen in the movie when the french started bombing civilians in the casbah (this is real terrorism) which was the beginning of series of attacks between the two parts.
I'm algerian and my parents and relatives lived in Algeria that time, I can tell you, you have to live it to know what's occupation, war and suffering! and I think what I saw in "the battle of Algiers" is worst!.
I especially admire Larbi Ben M'hidi which is one of the most important leaders of the algerian liberation revolution, a man who has a good vision , who believed in the freedom of Algeria and sacrificed himself for it, even the french who tortured him, they recognized his incredible courage and that he is a rare person.
The DVD is available now, you have to see it, there are many extra and many reactions/opinions of many people, Yassef Saadi, Pontecorvo, ex-french soldiers and officials , American officials..etc
Good movie :)