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They Joined the Front

Plot: In this film, four key witnesses, who live in Algeria today, as full-fledged Agerians, show us what this colonization was really like, so "beneficial" that they themselves perceived it as the oppression of one people by another. Three of them, who today would be called "pieds noirs," in other words, those Europeans to whom France, the occupying power, gave the best land, taken from the indigenous populations, work, and exclusive rights, not shared by the entire population, lived rather well compared to the majority of the "natives
Release Date: Sunday, January 1 2011
13 years ago
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Portrait of Félix ColozziFélix Colozzi. Félix Colozzi was 81 in They Joined the Front as 'Self'.
Birthday: Wed, Mar 12 1930 –
Died: Fri, Feb 14 2025
Portrait of Annie SteinerAnnie Steiner. Annie Steiner was >> in They Joined the Front as 'Self'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Pierre ChauletPierre Chaulet. Pierre Chaulet was 81 in They Joined the Front as 'Self'.
Birthday: Thu, Mar 27 1930 –
Died: Fri, Oct 05 2012
Portrait of Roberto MuñizRoberto Muñiz. Roberto Muñiz was >> in They Joined the Front as 'Self'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Crew

Portrait of Jean AsselmeyerJean Asselmeyer. Jean Asselmeyer was 67 in They Joined the Front as 'Director, Writer'
Birthday: Tue, Jan 11 1944
Portrait of Anne de GalzainAnne de Galzain. Anne de Galzain was >> in They Joined the Front as 'Editor'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Nassim KoutiNassim Kouti. Nassim Kouti was >> in They Joined the Front as 'Music'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Nabil MechkalNabil Mechkal. Nabil Mechkal was >> in They Joined the Front as 'Cinematography'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Mohamed ZiouaniMohamed Ziouani. Mohamed Ziouani was >> in They Joined the Front as 'Sound'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday