Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Choisir à vingt ans (original title)
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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.
Cast: Freddy Buache, André Gazut, Diego Masson, Nils Andersson, Jacques Baynac, Anita Bernard, André Bernard, Claude Garino, Jean-Claude Girardin, Claude Glayman, Lillis Kielland, Pierre Leray, Paul Kobisch, Simone Mohr, Jean Mohr, Michel Monod, Louis Orhant, Jacques Pous
Writers: Villi Hermann (Writer), Eve Martin (Writer)
Editors: Jean Reusser, Emilie Chappatte
Sound Designer: Hamid Hosmani
Composer: Zeno Gabaglio
Producers: Villi Hermann, Silvana Bezzola Rigolini, Irène Challand
Production: Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films
