Choisir à vingt ans
/
Elegir a los veinte
director:
Villi Hermann
playwright:
Villi Hermann
/
Eve Martin
actor:
Freddy Buache
/
André Gazut
/
Diego Masson
/
Nils Andersson
/
Jacques Baynac
…
genre:
Documentary
region:
Algeria
/
Switzerland
language:
Arabic
/
French
length: 1h 40m
release date: 2017-08-24
IMDb: tt6908856
Choisir à vingt ans
Overview
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.