
Mohamed Boudia (in Arabic: محمد بوديا), born February 24, 1932 in the Casbah of Algiers and died June 28, 1973 in Paris 5th, is a playwright, militant and Algerian independence activist and of the Palestinian cause. Mohamed Boudia, a kid from the Casbah, left school at the end of primary school, went to shine shoes or sell newspapers. In the mid-1940s Boudia experienced his first arrest: while an...
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This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to power of Charles De Gaulle. The film's most valuable contributions are its interviews with all sorts of people who lived through this period of history, from Marshall Petain's lawyer (Petain headed the Vichy government of occupied France) to resistance figures, and Frenchmen who fought on the side of the Nazis in Russia.
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