Algeria's Bloody Years

Algeria's Bloody Years

2002 · 158 min · ★ 8.5 · Documentary, History

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.

Directed by Malek Bensmaïl · Written by Thierry Leclère

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Chadli Bendjedid Self (archive footage)
Mohamed Boudiaf Self (archive footage)
Houari Boumédiène Self (archive footage)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika Self (archive footage)
Ali Dilem Self
Boudjemaâ Karèche Self
Ali Haroun Self
Hubert Védrine Self
Mostafa Brahami Self
Rachid Benyelles Self
Khaled Nezzar Self
Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi Self

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