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CHoosing at Twenty
CHoosing at Twenty

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CHoosing at Twenty

NR·2017·100m

Summary

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.

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Director, Writer

Villi Hermann

Writer

Eve Martin

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

French

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Keywords

pacifism
algeria
french colonialism
algerian war (1954-62)
anti-colonialism
conscientious objectors
djazair
antimilitarism