Essays on Battle of Algiers

This paper serves as a second look at the Italian-Algerian film The Battle of Algiers following an in-class screening and subsequent comprehensive discussion on how Pontecorvo’s direction created a stunningly realistic piece. On framing and angles, The Battle of Algiers was shot without frills or…

One of the most influential cinéma vérité movies in history, Pontecorvo’s ‘The Battle of Algiers’ (1966) rawly portrays the Algerian nationalist battle for independence (1954-1962). The Italo-Algerian movie starts in 1957 with a terrified FLN recruit surrendering to the torture of French paratroopers and revealing…

War movies are often dramatized, either in a positive political. Some glorify it while others emphasize a portrayal the hardships caused, and lives lost. Others cast a positive light on one side while dehumanizing or criticizing the other. Ivan’s Childhood and the battle of Algiers…

This film, which was directed by Pontercorvo, is exceptional not only in content but in camera work. The viewer can not but help being drawn into a world which seems so realistic as to include black and white footage, newsreel like scenes, not to mention…

In the film, Battagli di Algiers or Battle of Algiers (1966), the two main ideological approaches which emerge are Colonialism and Feminist Studies and this film conforms to the Third Cinema movement prevalent in the 1960s. The Battle of Algiers covers crucial years in Algerian…