The Battle of Algiers
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- August 31, 1966 (1966-08-31) (Venice)
- September 9, 1966 (1966-09-09) (Italy)
- September 27, 1966 (1966-09-27) (Algeria)
- 136 minutes (Original version)
- 120 minutes (Cut version for theaters)[1]
Algeria
French
The Battle of Algiers (
The film concentrates mainly on revolutionary fighter
The film was met with international acclaim, and it's considered to be
In 2008, the film was included on the
Subject
The Battle of Algiers reconstructs the
The tactics of the FLN guerrilla
Pontecorvo and Solinas created several protagonists in their screenplay who are based on historical war figures. The story begins and ends from the perspective of
Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu, the paratroop commander, is the principal French character. Other characters are the boy
Production and style
Screenplay
The Battle of Algiers was inspired by the 1962 book Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger, an FLN military commander's account of the campaign, by Saadi Yacef.[7] Yacef wrote the book while he was held as a prisoner of the French, and it served to boost morale for the FLN and other militants. After independence, the French released Yacef, who became a leader in the new government. The Algerian government backed adapting Yacef's memoir as a film. Salash Baazi, an FLN leader who had been exiled by the French, approached Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo and screenwriter Franco Solinas with the project.[citation needed]
To meet the demands of film, The Battle of Algiers uses composite characters and changes the names of certain persons. For example, Colonel Mathieu is a composite of several French counterinsurgency officers, especially Jacques Massu.[8] Saadi Yacef has said that Mathieu was based more on Marcel Bigeard, although the character is also reminiscent of Roger Trinquier.[9] Accused of portraying Mathieu as too elegant and noble, screenwriter Solinas denied that this was his intention. He said in an interview that the Colonel is "elegant and cultured, because Western civilization is neither inelegant nor uncultured".[10]
Visual style
For The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo and cinematographer Marcello Gatti filmed in black and white and experimented with various techniques to give the film the look of newsreel and documentary film. The effect was so convincing that American releases carried a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used.[11]
Pontecorvo's use of fictional realism enables the movie "to operate along a double-bind as it consciously addresses different audiences." The film makes special use of television in order to link western audiences with images they are constantly faced with that are asserted to express the "truth". The film seems to be filmed through the point of view of a western reporter, as telephoto lenses and hand-held cameras are used, whilst "depicting the struggle from a 'safe' distance with French soldiers placed between the crowds and camera."[12]
Cast
Pontecorvo chose to cast non-professional Algerians. He chose people whom he met, picking them mainly on appearance and emotional effect (as a result, many of their lines were dubbed).[13] The sole professional actor of the movie was Jean Martin, who played Colonel Mathieu; Martin was a French actor who had worked primarily in theatre. Pontecorvo wanted a professional actor, but one who would not be familiar to most audiences, as this could have interfered with the movie's intended realism.[citation needed]
Martin had been dismissed several years earlier from the
Saadi Yacef, who plays El-Hadi Jaffar, and Samia Kerbash, who plays Fathia, were both members of the FLN and Pontecorvo is said to have been greatly inspired by their accounts. The actors credited are:
- Jean Martin as Colonel Philippe Mathieu
- Saadi Yacef as El-Hadi Jafar
- Brahim Haggiag as Ali La Pointe
- Tommaso Neri as Captain Dubois
- Samia Kerbash as Fathia
- Ugo Paletti as a Captain
- Fusia El Kader as Halima
- Franco Moruzzi as Mahmoud
- Mohamed Ben Kassen as Little Omar
Sound and music
Sound – both music and effects – perform important functions in the movie. Indigenous Algerian drumming, rather than dialogue, is heard during a scene in which female FLN militants prepare for bombings. In addition, Pontecorvo used the sounds of gunfire, helicopters and truck engines to symbolize the French methods of battle, while bomb blasts, ululation, wailing and chanting symbolize the Algerian methods. Gillo Pontecorvo wrote the music for The Battle of Algiers, but because he was classified as a "melodist-composer" in Italy, he was required to work with another composer as well; his good friend Ennio Morricone collaborated with him. The solo military drum, which is heard throughout the film, is played by the famous Italian drummer Pierino Munari.[15]
Release, reception and legacy
Initial reception
The film won the
Given national divisions over the Algerian War, The Battle of Algiers generated considerable political controversy in France. It was one of the first films to directly confront the issue of
The Battle of Algiers was formally banned by the French government for one year, though it did not see release in France for several more years because no private distributor would take the film.[18] Pontecorvo maintained that he had made a politically neutral film, contrary to the reaction of a French government that he described as "very sensitive on the Algerian issue," and he said "The Algerians put no obstacles in our way because they knew that I'd be making a more or less objective film about the subject."[20] In 1970 the film finally received a certificate for distribution in France, but release was further delayed until 1971 because of terroristic threats as well as civil opposition from veterans' groups.[19] The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS), a far-right paramilitary group, made bomb threats to theaters that sought to show the film.[18] Pontecorvo also received death threats.[17] Upon its release, reviews in the French press were generally much more favourable. Anti-censorship advocates came to the film's defense, and many critics reevaluated the film in light of the country's recent protest movements.[19] Most French audiences found its portrayal of the conflict to be nuanced and balanced, and the only disruption occurred in Lyons when an attendant threw ink at the screen.[18] Also, The international version of the film was shortened with torture scenes cut for British and American theaters.[1]
In the United States, the response to the film was altogether and immediately more positive than it had been in France.
Retrospective appraisal and influence
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 99% based on 93 reviews, with an average rating of 9.10/10; the site's consensus reads: "A powerful, documentary-like examination of the response to an occupying force, The Battle of Algiers hasn't aged a bit since its release in 1966."[23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100—indicating "universal acclaim"—based on 22 reviews collected since its 2004 re-release.[24]
By the time of the film's 2004 re-release, French reception was much more positive, with most critics accepting the film's aesthetic merits and historic significance as a given. A review in Libération deemed it the "best film ever made about the Algerian war" because it had been "the most credible and the fairest". A notable dissent came from Cahiers du Cinéma, which devoted a special feature to the film comprising five articles by various authors; the magazine's collective editorial denouncement of the film was "cast in such strong terms that it undermined, on moral grounds, the legitimacy of any critic or analyst who did not condemn the film, let alone anyone who dared consider it worthy of filmic attention," though ultimately their disapproval exerted little influence upon the broader French media.[19]
Roger Ebert added the film to his "Great Movies" series in 2004.[21] The film occupied the 48th place on the Critics' Top 250 Films of Sight and Sound's 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time,[25] as well as 120th place on Empire magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.[26] In 2010, Empire ranked the movie 6th in its list of the 100 Best Films of World Cinema.[27] It was selected to enter the list of the "100 Italian films to be saved". In 2007, the film was ranked fifth in The Guardian's readers' poll listing the 40 greatest foreign films of all time.[28]
The Battle of Algiers has influenced numerous filmmakers. The American film director Stanley Kubrick praised the film's artistry in an interview with the French magazine Positif: "All films are, in a sense, false documentaries. One tries to approach reality as much as possible, only it's not reality. There are people who do very clever things, which have completely fascinated and fooled me. For example, The Battle of Algiers. It's very impressive."[29] Also, according to Anthony Frewin, Kubrick's personal assistant, he stated: "When I started work for Stanley in September 1965 he told me that I couldn't really understand what cinema was capable of without seeing The Battle of Algiers. He was still enthusing about it prior to his death."[29] The Greek-French political filmmaker Costa-Gavras cited the film as an influence on his filmmaking.[30] The American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh took inspiration from the film while directing the drug war drama Traffic, noting that it (along with Costa-Gavras's Z) had "that great feeling of things that are caught, instead of staged, which is what we were after."[31][32][33] The German filmmaker Werner Herzog admired the film and made it one of the few films designated as required viewing to his film school students.[34][35] The English filmmaker Ken Loach, who saw the film in 1966, listed it among his top 10 favorite films of all time and mentioned its influence on his work: "It used non-professional actors. It was not over-dramatic. It was low key. It showed the impact of colonialism on daily lives. These techniques had an important influence on my filmmaking."[36] The American actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck said The Battle of Algiers was a key influence on his film Argo (2012).[37] The British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan has named the film as one of his favorites and has credited it as an influence on his films The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Dunkirk.[38][39]
The film has also received praise from political commentators. The Palestinian-American academic Edward Said (famous for his work Orientalism) praised The Battle of Algiers (along with Pontecorvo's other film, Burn!) as the two films "stand unmatched and unexcelled since they were made in the 60s. Both films together constitute a political and aesthetic standard never again equaled."[40] The British-Pakistani writer and activist Tariq Ali placed The Battle of Algiers in his top 10 films list for the 2012 Sight and Sound poll.[41] In 2023, the progressive American magazine The New Republic ranked it first place on its list of the 100 most significant political films of all time.[42]
The Battle of Algiers and guerrilla movements
The release of The Battle of Algiers coincided with the
Pontecorvo, hearing that the journalist Jimmy Breslin had characterized The Battle of Algiers as a guerrilla warfare training film on American television, replied:
Perhaps he is right, but that is much too simple. The film champions everyone who is deprived of his rights, and encourages him to fight for them. But it is an analogy for many situations: Vietnam, for one. What I would prefer for people to discover is something that is in all my films, a certain kind of tenderness for man, an affection which grows from the fragility of the human condition.[45]
Later Screenings
Screenings for counterinsurgency agencies
1960s screenings in Argentina
President
Anibal Acosta, one of the ESMA cadets interviewed 35 years later by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin, described the session:
They showed us that film to prepare us for a kind of war very different from the regular war we had entered the Navy School for. They were preparing us for police missions against the civilian population, who became our new enemy.[46]
2003 Pentagon screening
During 2003, the press reported that
A flyer for the screening said:
How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.[48]
According to the Defense Department official in charge of the screening, "Showing the film offers historical insight into the conduct of French operations in Algeria, and was intended to prompt informative discussion of the challenges faced by the French."[48]
2003–2004 theatrical re-release
At the time of the 2003 Pentagon screening, legal and "pirate" VHS and DVD versions of the movie were available in the United States and elsewhere, but the image quality was degraded. A restored print had been made in Italy in 1999. Rialto Pictures acquired the distribution rights to re-release the film again in the United Kingdom in December 2003 as well as in the United States and in France on separate dates in 2004. The film was shown in the Espace Accattone, rue Cujas in Paris, from November 15, 2006, to March 6, 2007.[49]
Home media
The home media release history of Battle of Algiers is summarized in the following table.
Title | Released | Publisher | Aspect Ratio | Cut | Runtime | Commentaries | Resolution | Master | Medium |
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#249[50] | October 19, 2021[51] | The Criterion Collection[50] | 1.85:1[52] | 2018 restoration | 2h 02m | none | 2160p | 4K | Blu-ray |
Dual Edition[53] | May 2, 2018[54] | Cult Films | 1080i/2160p | ||||||
CULT501 | July 9, 2012[55] | 1080i | |||||||
#249 | August 9, 2011[56] | The Criterion Collection | 2K | ||||||
AGTD011[57] | August 30, 2009[58] | Cult Films | 480i | DVD | |||||
#249[50] | October 12, 2004[50] | The Criterion Collection | 2h 01m | ||||||
#9322225034198 | 2004 | Madman Entertainment | 1.33:1 | 1h 57m | 576 lines | PAL | |||
TVT 1085 | February 19, 2001[59] | Palisades Tartan Video[60] | VHS | ||||||
EE1043[61] | 1993[62] | Encore Entertainment | 1.66:1[63] | 2h 0m[64] | 425 lines | LaserDisc | |||
RNVD 2108[65] | 1993 | Rhino Home Video[66] | 1.33:1 | 240 lines | NTSC | VHS | |||
January 9, 1990[67] | Foothill Home Video | 2h 01m | |||||||
AVC #0208 | 1988 | Axon Video | 2h 5m | ||||||
ID6786X | 1985 | 2h 02m | 425 lines | LaserDisc[68] | |||||
CVL1002[69] | October, 1983[70] | Capstan Video | 240 lines | VHS |
Special Editions
2004 Criterion DVD edition
On October 12, 2004, The Criterion Collection released the movie, transferred from a restored print, in a three-disc DVD set. The extras include former US counter-terrorism advisors Richard A. Clarke and Michael A. Sheehan discussing The Battle of Algiers' depiction of terrorism and guerrilla warfare. Directors Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone discussed its influence on film. Another documentary in the set includes interviews with FLN commanders Saadi Yacef and Zohra Drif.[71]
See also
- Jamila, the Algerian, a commercial film on the same topic released in 1958.
- Lost Command, a commercial film on the same topic released the same year.
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire, a 1975 Algerian drama historical film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the Algerian War of Independence as seen through the eyes of a peasant.
- Lion of the Desert, a similar movie about Omar al-Mukhtar's Libyan resistance against Italian occupation.
- List of submissions to the 39th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Further reading
- Aussaresses, General Paul. The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955–1957 (New York, Enigma Books, 2010). ISBN 978-1-929631-30-8.
- O’Leary, Alan. The Battle of Algiers (Milan, Mimesis International, 2019). ISBN 978-88-6977-079-1
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Soderbergh called Traffic his '$47 million Dogme film' and used hand-held camera, available light, and (ostensibly) improvisational performance in an attempt to present a realistic story about illegal drugs. He prepared by analyzing two political films made in a realist style: Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) and Z (Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1969), both of which he described as having 'that great feeling of things that are caught, instead of staged, which is what we were after.'
- Far Out. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
The filmmaker said, 'For this film, I spent a lot of time analysing Battle of Algiers and Z — both of which have that great feeling of things that are caught, instead of staged, which is what we were after. I just wanted that sensation of chasing the story, this sense that it may outrun us if we don't move quickly enough.'
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I also recommend Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, which I admire because of the acting...
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Affleck: "I haven't done a movie that I haven't ripped off from another one! [Laughs.] This movie, we ripped off All the President's Men, for the CIA stuff, a John Cassavetes movie called The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, which we really used as a reference for the California stuff, and then there was kind of a Battle of Algiers, Z/Missing/Costa-Gavras soup of movies, that we used for the rest of it."
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- The Battle of Algiers at AllMovie
- The Battle of Algiers at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Battle of Algiers at Metacritic
- Official website at Rialto Pictures
- The Battle of Algiers: Bombs and Boomerangs an essay by Peter Matthews at the Criterion Collection
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