Gillo Pontecorvo

The movie “The Battle of Algiers” directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, highlights the efforts of the Muslim Algerian population fighting for independence of their country from the French government. The movie had a documentary type theme to it, making the movie more realistic and actually encounter what’s really happening. Two particular foes stood out throughout the movie. On the French side was Paratrooper Colonel Mathieu, whose sole mission is to stay in Algeria to erase any chance of an Algerian rebellion. The Algerian population initiated a movement “National Liberation Front of Algiers” a group of Muslim Algerians who conducted to contend for independence in Algeria against their French government and the paratroops stationed in their country. One main characters, Ali La pointe is the leader of the organization FLN, a former criminal…

Cindy Cortez Dr. Carlos Perez Clas170 3 November 2017 Burn! The history of Latin America is something in which many choose to oversee. Our world in which we live in is not mindful of the history. We are taught that people choose to forget its history and some never want to learn it. Many do not realize that the influences of Latin America are part of our systems, our cultures, our traditions in which we live in today. In this class I have learned about many themes in which why Latin American…

of the Algerian War of Independence. French police and military out posts located in the Aures Mountains were targeted by the Algerian National Liberation Front; FLN for short. The series of rebellious events that occurred between 1954 and 1957 against the French in the capital of Algeria ultimately led to Algeria gaining its official independence from France on the third of July in 1962. A truce had finally been reached between French President Charles de Gaulle and the Muslim-led National…

The most electrifyingly opportune motion picture playing in New York was made in 1965. Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is well known, however for quite a while it's been accessible just in washed-out prints with ineffectively interpreted, white-on-white subtitles. The recently deciphered and subtitled 35-millimeter print at Film Forum is probably the form that was secretly screened in August for military work force by the Pentagon as a field manual for battling terrorism. Previous…

Oppression in The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo follows the course of the Algerian war that continued from 1954 to 1962. It was known that Algerians wanted to be free from control of the French government that was present in Algeria at the time. The film captures the struggles of the Algerians as the continued to fight for their autonomy. As a result of the ongoing violence, oppression was felt by both the Algerians and French settlers. French…

Gillo Pontecorvo’s movie Queimada(Burn!), set in the fictions island of Queimada, which is located in the lesser Antilles and is under the control of Portugal, is about the black slave populations struggle for freedom in the face of foreign control over their land. The main character is Sir William Walker, who is sent by the British crown to the island to instigate an insurrection of the peasants and slaves against the Portuguese and establish a government friendly to british interests. He…

The 1966 film The Battle of Algiers produced by Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) is based on the Algerian War of Independence, in attempts of gaining independence from France (Algerian War). It is clearly depicted how problematic this film was and the problems contextualized. One of the major problems this film showed was the dehumanization of the colonial experience endured by the Arab Algerians in Algeria. Of the many conflicts, Algerians endured them by the hands of the French. A…

The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) director Ken Loach has repeatedly admitted that The Battle of Algiers (1966) has had a large influence on his own filmmaking career. In Martin Evan’s interview with Ken Loach about the Gillo Pontecorvo film, Evans says “[Loach’s] film-making is committed to a realist style; one that strives to give a voice to ordinary people and their daily lives.” The Pontecorvo film as an early example of postcolonial film is a good place to start when looking at The Wind…

However, the French constantly denied their wants and forced their culture onto a reluctant Algeria. As a result of this persistent means of discourteous authority, Algeria had to retaliate in the only way they could send a clear message—through violence. The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, illustrates the war against colonialism between the Algerians and the French. The Algerians began to assassinate the perceivable enablers of the colonial oppression which happened…