03 Oct 2007
Intimate Enemies
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
To Be Twenty in the Aures
A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day. International Critics Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Copy restored in 2012
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Philippe Léotard Lieutenant Perrin
Jacques Canselier Coco
Jean-Jacques Moreau Jacques
Michel Elias L'instituteur
Philippe Brizard Charles Trétout Charles
Pierre Vautier Pierrick
Alain Vautier Lanick
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