THE ALGERIAN WAR: THE FRACTURE

On November 1, 1954, a group of men from a still unknown organization, the FLN (National Liberation Front), launched an operation against the French presence in Algeria. In March 1956, a vote was taken in metropolitan France to send contingent soldiers to deal with the “events”: the repression was relentless. For the entire political class, “Algeria is France”, and there was no question of abandoning a territory that had been part of France since the conquest of 1830... But the time was ripe for decolonization, and everywhere else in the Empire, people were demanding independence.

Half a century later, the Algerian war remains a deep and vivid rift, one of the most terrible chapters in the history of decolonization. This film invites us to look history in the face, by tracing the events chronologically, from the “Toussaint Rouge” attacks to the Algiers putsch of 1961 and the proclamation of independence in 1962.

Using never-before-seen, colorized archival footage, The Algerian War: The Fracture sheds light on the conflict through a plurality of perspectives in order to understand what really happened. A powerful documentary that helps us move from memory to history, from woundedness to healing.