Algeria's Bloody Years

(2002)

★ 8.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Documentary, History

Year: 2002

Runtime: 158 мин

Country: France

Director: Malek Bensmaïl, Patrice Barrat, Thierry Leclère

Cast: Chadli Bendjedid, Mohamed Boudiaf, Хуари Бумедьен, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ali Dilem, Boudjemaâ Karèche, Ali Haroun, Hubert Védrine, Mostafa Brahami, Rachid Benyelles

Plot

Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.