« C’may be the last time I speak,” says Simone Aïach, a communist activist of Jewish origin from Bab El Oued. “People don’t know that, people don’t know that”, repeats, gravely, the writer Bachir Hadjadj. These incipit open the documentary series, in six parts, At war(s) for Algeria*directed by Raphaëlle Branche and Rafael Lewandowski, broadcast on 1is and March 2 on Arte and co-produced by the INA and the Franco-German channel, a series richly fleshed out with poignant testimonies and historical rigor. At the same time, the 160 hours of unpublished interviews with witnesses and players in the Algerian war will be broadcast in full on ina.fr and, from March 10, the six episodes of the series will be available on the educational platform…
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