Algeria's Bloody Years

Algeria's Bloody Years

8.5

Jan 01 2002

3h 38m

Documentary, History

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.

Chadli Bendjedid

Chadli Bendjedid

Self (archive footage)

Mohamed Boudiaf

Mohamed Boudiaf

Self (archive footage)

Houari Boumédiène

Houari Boumédiène

Self (archive footage)

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Self (archive footage)