Algeria's Bloody Years Poster

Algeria's Bloody Years

2002 2h 38m star 8.5 / 10

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.

Top Billed Cast

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)

Ali Dilem

Ali Dilem

Self

Boudjemaâ Karèche

Boudjemaâ Karèche

Self

Ali Haroun

Ali Haroun

Self

Hubert Védrine

Hubert Védrine

Self

Mostafa Brahami

Mostafa Brahami

Self

Rachid Benyelles

Rachid Benyelles

Self