Gillo Pontecorvo’s film, The Battle of Algiers, is a cameo and a brilliant piece of film-making.There were very important, indeed crucial, forces and persons in the shadows, such that the Algerians, the French Army and the settlers we saw were, unwittingly, actors in a script written and largely directed by others.I want to look at these forces and persons and what has happened to Algeria; how her people have fared since victorious independence. The people I most wish to discuss are the FLN (Fro…
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