Here We Drown Algerians: October 17th, 1961 ( Ici on noie les Algériens: 17 Octobre 1961 ) ( Here We Drown Algerians: 10.17.1961 )

Here We Drown Algerians: October 17th, 1961 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ici on noie les Algériens: 17 Octobre 1961
Alternate Title: Here We Drown Algerians: 10.17.1961
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Yasmina Adi

Written By:
Yasmina Adi

Actors:
Yasmina Adi

Synopsis:

In response to the call of the Front de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Front), thousands of Algerians from Paris and its suburbs, march on October 17, 1961 to protest against the curfew imposed on them. Fifty years later, the filmmaker sheds light on the events of the day. Blending testimony and unseen archive footage, history and memory, past and present, the film presents the different stages of the day and reveals the strategy and methods applied at the highest level of the French state: manipulation of public opinion, the systematic challenge of every accusation, the censoring of information in order to prevent investigation…

Here We Drown Algerians. That chilling claim was actually written on the side of the Quai Conti in Paris, and then immortalized in Jean Texier's snapshot. It refers to one of the darkest incidents in recent French history: the attack by French police on a peaceful march by Algerians supporting the independence of their country on October 17, 1961. Many marchers died on the streets, while other jumped or were forced into the Seine, resulting in even more deaths. Remarkably, news reports of this tragedy were largely quashed, and it remained unknown until a series of articles and books appeared in the early 1990s. Drawing on some remarkable period footage and photographs, as well as interviews with some of survivors and their families, Yasmina Ada offers a richly detailed account of the events leading up to the march as well as the cover-up and its aftermath.

Fifty years after thousands of Parisian Algerians marched against a curfew, this documentry sheds fresh light on that day by blending testimony with archive footage.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 08 July, 2013.

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