Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.

• DirectorGillo Pontecorvo
• Release8 September 1966
• Genre
  Drama / War
• Duration2h 1m
• Budget$800,000
• Revenue$964,028
• Rate
  

  7.883
  846 reviews
• Productions

  Igor Film, Casbah Film