Mémoires du 17 octobre 1961

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Mémoires du 17 octobre 1961 (2002)

Directed by Bernard Richard, Faïza Guène

Documentary, History, Drama · 17m

Three demonstrators from October 17, 1961, and a journalist recount the peaceful success of the demonstration and its brutal repression in the streets of Paris. Five months before the end of the Algerian War, the Gaullist government violently suppressed (40 to 300 deaths in a single evening, according to various sources) a peaceful demonstration by the entire Algerian civilian population of the Paris region, protesting the curfew imposed solely on this population (all participants held French citizenship). The government long denied this state crime; the official version: 3 deaths! In 1962, these events were granted amnesty by a simple decree (later enacted into law) issued by the same Gaullist government.

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Cast

Monique Hervo Self Georges Azenstarck Self Omar Touil Self Ahmed Touil Self

Crew

Director
Bernard Richard, Faïza Guène
Writer
Monique Hervo
Editor
Bernard Richard, Faïza Guène
Producer
Jérôme Polidor

Details

Release date
2002-01-01
Runtime
17m
Genres
Documentary, History, Drama
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
Les Engraineurs