The battle of algiers. <> is a black&white movie written by Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo, an italian filmmaker, who also produced the movie in 1966. The movie is set in 1950’s Algeria, during the algiers’ fight for their independence against the french army. The 1960s were a time where the film industry was overflowing with movies on the topic of the Algerian revolution against French colonialism, which is why we can ask; What makes this movie different? First of all, the story of the war is told vividly and detailed. It shows just how much violence and brutality there was during this battle. However, this violence is not shown as the fault of one or the other country, which is the second point that makes this movie unique; it did …show more content…
The movie is made to be real; real stories, real facts, real events and no embellishments. The writers of the movie made sure they had their facts straight before the making of the movie; Peter Mathews says that in order to do so, Pontercovo and Solinas were: << traveling to Algiers and Paris, interviewing eyewitnesses, compiling dossiers, studying and pondering.>> Another point that Mathews wrote about, is the filming of the movie, and how it was filmed to seem more like a documentary than a movie; he says <> A lot of scenes were filmed so that the audience could understand later what was happening. There are many scenes to support this; the first scene would be when Jaffron meets Ali “La Pointe” and tells him that he should join the FLN and that they need to get Algiers on their side before starting the movement, which is what later happens in the movie. The next scene is the meeting of the French army where colonel Mathieu says they need to take down the executive bureau, which is made up of the leaders of the FLN. scene where the media held a press conference and were asking Ben M’Hidi about his opinions on the revolution, and then the next conference where they asked Colonel Mathieu questions about the French army’s use of violence and torture, and he responds by making references to world war II, when the French army resisted fascism and Nazism, to explain how they are not using violence for the wrong reasons, which led to the understanding of the next scene, which is a representation of all the methods of torture used on Algiers to confess what they know about the members of the FLN (National Liberation Front), who are the leaders of the