Release Date: 2004-08-01
Overview: This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
Rating: 10 / 10
Brahim Hadjadj
as Ali La Pointe (archive footage)
Mohamed Ben Kassen
as Petit Omar
Spike Lee
as Self
Oliver Stone
as Self
Mira Nair
as Self
Nicholas Blair - Director of Photography
Gary Bradley - Editor
Peter Becker - Executive Producer
Abbey Lustgarten - Producer
Jonathan Turell - Executive Producer
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