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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Zabana! | Khelifa, Said Ould | 2012 | Algeria |
Algeria’s entry for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film in 2013, Zabana!, directed by Said Ould Khelifa, focuses on Ahmed Zabana (1926-56), played by Imad Benchenni, an Algerian militant liberation movement leader of the , who... |
Hatfields & McCoys | Reynolds, Kevin | 2012 | United States |
The story of the feud that nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy were close friends until near the end of the Civil War, when they return to their homes -- Hatfield in West Virginia and... |
Solomon Kane | Bassett, Michael J. | 2012 | France; Czech Republic; United Kingdom |
Captain Solomon Kane is a brutally efficient 16th century English privateer. When Kane decides to attack a mysterious nearby castle to plunder its rumored riches, his men are picked off by demonic creatures until he alone is left to face the... |
Les adieux à la reine / Farewell, My Queen | Jacquot, Benoît | 2012 | France |
A young servant girl at Versailles witnesses the French Revolution. Sidonie is devoted to Marie Antoinette, staying with her when other servants and aristocrats flee. She agrees to help the Queen's friend escape. |
Fidaï | Mohamed El Hadi Benadouda | 2012 | Algeria, Germany, France, China |
During the Algerian revolution, El Hadi joined his sister in France and became an active member of a secret FLN armed group. Encompassing settling of scores, attempted murder, hiding, imprisonment and finally deportation back to Algeria in 1962,... |
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit / What the Day Owes the Night | Alexandre Arcady | 2012 | France |
Algeria under French colonization, in the 1930s. Younes is 9 years old when he is put in the care of his uncle, a pharmacist in the city of Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the kids of Rio Salado and becomes their friend. In the gang,... |
Je Vous ai Compris | Chiche, Franck | 2012 | France |
On the night of April 21st 1961, in an attempt to halt the policy implemented by General de Gaulle which led to Algeria's independence, the 1st Foreign Regiment of Parachutists took power in Algiers. At the same time, Malika, Jacquot and Thomas... |
Le premier homme / The First Man | Gianni Amelio | 2012 | France, Italy, Algeria |
August 1957: A famous writer in his forties, Jacques Cormery, visits his mother who lives in Algiers. The city is undergoing the urban warfare of the Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence. Cormery reflects on his school years... |
La Guerre du Royal Palace | Rome, Claude-Michel | 2012 | France |
This World War II comedy imagines how the French Resistance and German intelligence officers cohabitated in Parisian hotels. The Royal Palace Hotel and its staff begrudgingly host the Abwehr, the German counter-intelligence service. The staff... |
Ici-bàs / Here Below | Denis, Jean-Pierre | 2012 | France |
Loosely based on the true story of Sister Marie-Philomène, this film reveals the precarious role women occupied in World War II. Sister Luce, a nun and nurse, falls in love with a French resistance fighter. When spurned by him, she seeks... |
Parade's End | White, Susanna | 2012 | United Kingdom |
In this HBO-BBC-VRT miniseries, an English aristocrat awakens to the modern world shaped by feminism and World War I. The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage flounders... |