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Yacef Saâdi
January 20, 1928 · 98 years old
Yacef Saâdi (20 January 1928 – 10 September 2021) was an Algerian independence fighter, serving as a leader of the National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence. After the Algerian War, Yacef helped produce Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers (1966),…
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The Battle of Algiers
1966 · 2h 1m · Movie
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
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Terror's Advocate
2007 · 2h 15m · Movie
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
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