Sawt Echaâb (1961)

Overview : “La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Algerian resistance. Participating in a war of real images against French colonial propaganda, these images aimed to show the images that the occupier had censored or distorted, by showing the extortions of the French occupation army: torture, arrests and arbitrary executions, napalm bombings, roundabout fires, erasing entire villages from the map, etc. This is what the French media described as a “pacification campaign”.

Release Date : January 1, 1961

Runtime : 20m

Genre : War, Documentary  

Companies : Agence Algérienne pour le Rayonnement Culturel

Countries : Algeria

Keywords : algeria, french colonialism, algerian war (1954-62), anti-colonialism, guerilla army, djazair, independance war, resistance army