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CHoosing at Twenty

CHoosing at Twenty

2017•1h 40m•6.8/10
Documentary

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6.8/10(4)

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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Production

Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films

Language

FR

Status

Released

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Cast

Freddy Buache

Freddy Buache

Self

André Gazut

André Gazut

Self

Diego Masson

Diego Masson

Self

Nils Andersson

Self

Jacques Baynac

Self

Anita Bernard

Self

André Bernard

Self

Claude Garino

Self

Jean-Claude Girardin

Self

Claude Glayman

Self

Lillis Kielland

Self

Pierre Leray

Self

Paul Kobisch

Self

Simone Mohr

Self

Jean Mohr

Self

Michel Monod

Self

Louis Orhant

Self

Jacques Pous

Self

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