The Battle of Algiers

This trailer promotes the 2004 re-release by Rialto Pictures of the restored print of director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 landmark, The Battle Of Algiers.

Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s recreation of the French colonial authorities’ crackdown in January, 1957, featuring Jean Martin, the only professional actor in the film, as Col. Mathieu, arriving then lecturing his troops, in Battle Of Algiers, 1966.

FLN (Algerian nationalist) rebel Saari (non-professional actor Yacef Saadi) witnesses an execution in a French colonial prison in, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers, 1966.

French colonial authorities launch their response to a general strike in the Casbah ghetto in Algiers, in January, 1957, in director Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers, 1966.

After an opening scene establishing Algiers, 1957, the opening credits and a raid by French colonial troops aimed at the capture of Ali (Brahim Haggiag), from Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers, 1966.