Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy, Algeria
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
- revolution
- algerian
- algiers
- algeria
- resistance fighter
- french colonialism
- algerian war (1954-62)
- battle of algiers
- struggle for independence
- anti-colonialism
- djazair
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Brahim Hadjadj
Ali La Pointe
Mohamed Ben Kassen
Petit Omar
Yacef Saâdi
El-Hadi Jaffar
Fouzia El Kader
Halima
- Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
- Larbi Zekkal — Combattant FLN
- Rouiched — The Drunk Man (uncredited)
- Noureddine Brahimi — Responsable FLN
- Si Mohamed Baghdadi — Larbi Ben M'hidi
- Abderrahmane Brahimi — Le Marié de la Casbah
- Jean Martin — Colonel Philippe Mathieu
- Fatiha Djoudi — La Mariée de la Casbah
- Franco Moruzzi — Mahmoud (uncredited)
- Tomasso Neri — Captain Dubois
- Samia Kerbash — Fathia
- Directed
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Written
- Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
Production
- Studio
- Igor Film, Casbah Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
