Algeria's Bloody Years (2002)

  • NR
  • 01/01/2002 (FR)
  • Documentary, History
  • 2h 38m

Overview

Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.

Malek Bensmaïl

Writer, Director

Patrice Barrat

Writer, Director

Thierry Leclère

Writer, Director

Samia Chala

Writer

Cast

Chadli Bendjedid's headshot

Chadli Bendjedid

Self (archive footage)
Mohamed Boudiaf's headshot

Mohamed Boudiaf

Self (archive footage)
Houari Boumédiène's headshot

Houari Boumédiène

Self (archive footage)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika's headshot

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Self (archive footage)
Ali Dilem's headshot

Ali Dilem

Self
Boudjemaâ Karèche's headshot

Boudjemaâ Karèche

Self
Ali Haroun's headshot

Ali Haroun

Self
Hubert Védrine's headshot

Hubert Védrine

Self

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