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CHoosing at Twenty

Documentary
100 mins
6.8
2017

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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.

Casts:

Freddy Buache
André Gazut
Diego Masson
Nils Andersson
Jacques Baynac
Anita Bernard
André Bernard
Claude Garino

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