Film · Documentary
CHoosing at Twenty (2017)
★ 6.8 · 4 votes1 h 40 minDocumentary2017
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.
- Director
- Villi Hermann
- Writers
- Villi Hermann, Eve Martin
- Country
- Algeria, Switzerland
- Language
- French
- Release date
- August 24, 2017
- Original title
- Choisir à vingt ans
Cast
Freddy BuacheSelf
André GazutSelf
Diego MassonSelf- Nils AnderssonSelf
- Jacques BaynacSelf
- Anita BernardSelf
- André BernardSelf
- Claude GarinoSelf
- Jean-Claude GirardinSelf
- Claude GlaymanSelf
- Lillis KiellandSelf
- Pierre LeraySelf
- Paul KobischSelf
- Simone MohrSelf
- Jean MohrSelf
- Michel MonodSelf
- Louis OrhantSelf
- Jacques PousSelf
