Argelia (1953)
Excitement Runs High...Young Blood Runs Hot...in Algiers!
Género : Aventura, Bélica
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 30M
Director : Lesley Selander
Escritor : Theodore St. John
Sinopsis
Norte de África. Jeff (Carlos Thompson) es un soldado que participa en la lucha de Francia contra la independencia de Argelia. Allí encontrará a Yvette (Yvonne De Carlo), una antigua novia, que trabaja como espía al servicio de Francia. Gracias a su impresionante belleza, Ivette Comte (Ivonne De Carlo), lleva numerosas acciones de alto riesgo con gran sutileza y habilidad para salirse siempre con la suya. Se trata, nada más y nada menos, que de una película de acción y espionaje, tiznada de romanticismo, con la actuación del Servicio de Inteligencia Francesa en un país con todos los ingredientes del exotismo, el peligro y el misterio: Argelia. Ivette tendrá que afrontar numerosos dificultades para llevar a cabo sus planes. Así, deberá atraer a un espía, pero a ello tendrá que unir el alto precio de utilizar al hombre que ama. Su recompensa pasará por prestar ayuda a numerosas empresas del gobierno.
Jonesy y Lou están en Argelia buscando un luchador que están promoviendo. El sargento Axmann los engaña para que se unan a la Legión Extranjera, después de lo cual descubren la colaboración de Axmann con el desagradable jeque Hamud El Khalid. Los bits incluyen los avistamientos de espejismo de Lou, uno de los vendedores de periódicos de Nueva York ("me dieron una mala esquina").
Pépé le Moko, uno de los delincuentes más buscados de Francia, se esconde en el barrio de la Casbah de Argel. Sabe que la policía le esperará si intenta salir de la ciudad. Cuando Pépé conoce a Gaby, una hermosa mujer de París que se ha perdido en la Casbah, se enamora de ella.
Melodrama de aventuras que manejaba los tópicos de la mitología sobre la Legión Francesa.
On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they think of themselves as the heroes of American soap opera and movies, so JR, Sue Ellen, Rambo, Kojak, Spock and others take possession of bodies and minds, with many typical American culture elements. These heroes mix in a beautiful funny mess, with tradition and modernism, Islam and television, reality and fiction.
A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
Un pueblo de algún lugar de Argelia. Mounir, altanero y fanfarrón, quiere que todos le admiren, pero se lo impide su hermana Rym, que sufre de narcolepsia y se queda dormida en cualquier sitio, además de su fama por acostarse con el primero que pasa. Un día, al volver de la ciudad con varias copas de más, anuncia a todo el pueblo que un riquísimo hombre de negocios le ha prometido casarse a su hermana. De la noche a la mañana, todo el mundo le admira y envidia. Encerrado en su propia mentira, Mounir acabará cambiando, sin querer, el destino de los suyos… (FILMAFFINITY)
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant.
A finales del siglo pasado, en un monasterio situado en las montañas del Magreb, ocho monjes cistercienses viven en perfecta armonía con sus hermanos musulmanes. Pero una ola de violencia y terror se apodera lentamente de la región. A pesar del creciente peligro que los rodea, los monjes deciden quedarse, cueste lo que cueste, haciéndose más fuertes cada día
Un anciano y sus dos hijas cruzan el desierto del Sáhara con una pequeña caravana. En realidad, la expedición no es sino una tapadera para un sargento y dos soldados en misión de exploración. Una comedia de aventuras protagonizada por un Burt Lancaster en un papel a su medida, secundado por la entonces debutante Jody Lawrance.
Two women and two men tell their stories of exile caused by being lesbian, transgender, bisexual and gay.
Domini es una mujer joven y atractiva que empieza una nueva vida en Argelia tras la muerte de su padre. Allí conoce a Boris, con el que se casa sin saber que éste esconde un oscuro secreto; su huida de un monasterio después de ordenar los votos como sacerdote. Este pasado inconfesable atormenta a Boris..
La decisión de Dan de huir y unirse a la Legión Extranjera Francesa tiene implicaciones de gran alcance para su hermano menor, Keith.
A watershed film, Omar Gatlato held a mirror up to Algerian male culture and the mirror cracked. The title refers to the expression "gatlato al-rujula," or, roughly, "machismo killed him" and the film's mordant insights into male posturing and alienation in Algerian society animate this bit of folk wisdom. In mock documentary style, a young man recounts with wry commentary a typical day in his life in the Bab el-Oued quarter of Algiers, while the camera playfully shows a different story. In following Omar and his friends in their pursuit of happiness, the film examines with shrewd humor the gang values of urban youth; their passion for popular culture (soccer, "Hindoo" movies, Rai concerts), their hidden fear of women, and their social insecurity in an environment where they are marginalized.
The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.
After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street.
This black-and-white film – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – presents one of the most readily apparent, though subtle, transformations of the daily life of the people of Algeria brought about by the ordeal of French occupation and the war of liberation. With military repression in full force, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her house in the mountains when her only son is taken away by French soldiers soon after her husband is killed in a raid. One day, on seeing a dead chicken, which she considers a bad omen, she decides to leave home, and sets off on a tiring journey through the mountains. With a pair of chickens in tow, she moves from one detention camp to the next in a desperate search for her missing son. The film was inspired by events experienced by the family of its director.
Seen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a subtle and not-so-subtle mistreatment of the female members of the tribe - tribal chiefs have the right to be the first to deflower virgins, and single or widowed mothers must walk a narrow line of behavior restrictions that do not apply to their male counterparts. Both genders, however, fight the brunt of the harsh desert winds together.
The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
