The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 96% of the 781 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
Ratings
IMDb8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes99%
Metacritic96/100
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
925 audience votes
Key crew
- Gillo PontecorvoDirector
- Franco SolinasWriter
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
- Gillo PontecorvoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Brahim HadjadjAli La Pointe
- Jean MartinColonel Philippe Mathieu
- Yacef SaâdiEl-Hadi Jaffar
- Samia KerbashFathia
- Ugo PalettiCaptain
- Fouzia El KaderHalima
- Mohamed Ben KassenPetit Omar
- Si Mohamed BaghdadiLarbi Ben M'hidi (uncredited)
- Franco MoruzziMahmoud (uncredited)
- Tomasso NeriCaptain Dubois (uncredited)
- RouichedThe Drunk Man (uncredited)
- Gene Wesson(uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
revolutionalgerianalgiers, algeriaresistance fighterfrench colonialismalgerian war (1954-62)battle of algiersstruggle for independenceanti-colonialismdjazairindependance warurban guerilla
The Best Movies of 1966
The Battle of Algiers is #2 of 60
