CHoosing at Twenty (2017)
Choisir à vingt ans
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.
- Date of release
- 2017-08-24
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Villi Hermann
Casting
- Freddy Buache — Self
- André Gazut — Self
- 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
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