CHoosing at Twenty
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Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2017-08-24
Runtime: 100 mins
Director: Villi Hermann
Writer: Villi Hermann, Eve Martin
Spoken language: العربية, Français
Genres: Documentary
Original title: CHoosing at Twenty
Production Companies: Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films
Production Countries: Algeria, Switzerland
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