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Our Algeria

Name: Our Algeria
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: 1959-01-01
Rating: 10

جزائرنا (Djazaïrouna)

Release Date

January 1, 1959

Runtime

19m

Language

Director

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Writers

DocumentaryWar

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Overview

"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform the international community at the UN in 1959 on the objectives pursued by the Algerian resistance during the war of 'Algeria. Independence in Algeria (1954-1962). In 1959, Djamel-Eddine Chanderli and Mohammed Lakdar-Hamina produced Djazaïrouna (Our Algeria) from images taken by René Vautier and Doctor Pierre Chaulet. This film, completed a little later and will result in the film “The Voice of the People”. This documentary on the history of Algeria through a montage of current events, traces the political and military actions of the A.L.N, the demonstrations of December 1960, and the attack on a fortified French base on the border between Algeria and Tunisia.