Days of Glory
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- Synopsis
- 1943. The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Saïd, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army, along with 130,000 other Âindigenous soldiers, to liberate the Âfatherland ......
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- Starring
- Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Samy Naceri, Bernard Blancan
- Director(s)
- Rachid Bouchareb
- Distributor(s)
- Weinstein Company
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 123 min.
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Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites
A splendid war movie. The combat sequences are harrowing -- all the more so for the director's spare, sharp-eyed style -- and the performances are phenomenally fine.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites
As directed by Rachid Bouchareb, himself born in France to Algerian immigrants, "Days of Glory" is a kind of a North African "Saving Private Ryan," a taut, involving film that delivers all the things we look for in war movies and does so with intelligence and integrity.Read the full review
