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Stay In Algeria (2012)

Stay In Algeria (2012)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2012, November 26
Directors: Géraldine Schwarz, Philippe Baron
Countries: France
Production: Aber Images, France Télévisions
Cast: Félix Colozzi, Denis Gonzales, Jean-Paul Grangaud, Marie-France Grangaud, Germaine Ripoll, Sélim Grangaud, Adrien Lopez, Maurice Baglietto, Cécile Serra, Rachid Ramdane, Guy Bonifacio, Lucette Lopez

Overview:

Algeria, summer 1962, eight hundred thousand French people left their native land in a tragic exodus. But 200,000 of them decided to attempt the adventure of independent Algeria. Over the following decades, political developments would push many of these pieds-noirs into exile towards France. But some never left. Germaine, Adrien, Cécile, Guy, Jean-Paul, Marie-France, Denis and Félix, Algerians of European origin, are among them. Some have Algerian nationality, others do not. Some speak Arabic, others do not. They are the last witnesses to the little-known history of these Europeans who remained out of loyalty to an ideal, a taste for adventure and an unconditional love for a land where they were born, despite all the ups and downs that the free Algeria in full construction had to go through.

Keywords:

fight for justice colonialism anti-colonialism french colonialism freedom fighters algeria algerian war (1954-62) djazair maghreb pieds-noirs