UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations
The Battle of Algiers | Italy, Algeria | 1966 | 35mm | 121 min. | French and Arabic with English subtitles Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Event Details
Date
Friday, March 14, 2025
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef
A landmark achievement in mixing fiction and documentary styles, The Battle of Algiers covers three years (1954-1957) in the Algerian struggle for independence from occupying France. Using actual locations and cinema vérité filming techniques, Pontecorvo achieves an astonishing, urgent realism. Ennio Morricone’s percussive, militaristic score adds just the right notes to this truly revolutionary movie.
A landmark achievement in mixing fiction and documentary styles, The Battle of Algiers covers three years (1954-1957) in the Algerian struggle for independence from occupying France. Using actual locations and cinema vérité filming techniques, Pontecorvo achieves an astonishing, urgent realism. Ennio Morricone’s percussive, militaristic score adds just the right notes to this truly revolutionary movie.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Friday, February 28, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.