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CHoosing at Twenty (2017)
Directed by Villi Hermann
Documentary · 1h 40m
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.
Cast
Freddy Buache
André Gazut
Diego Masson
Crew
- Director
- Villi Hermann
- Writer
- Villi Hermann, Eve Martin
- Editor
- Jean Reusser, Emilie Chappatte
- Producer
- Villi Hermann, Silvana Bezzola Rigolini, Irène Challand, Hachemi Zertal
Details
- Original title
- Choisir à vingt ans
- Release date
- 2017-08-24
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Algeria, Switzerland
- Production
- Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films