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About
From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumédiène, made Algiers a haven for activists fighting against colonial and racial oppression. Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established his base of operations there for his guerrilla activities in Africa. The African-American leader Eldridge Cleaver made it the international headquarters of the Black Panther Party. During this period, Algiers was known as "The Mecca of Revolutionaries."
Director
Producers
Yannis Chebbi, Amirouche Laïdi, Michaël Kazan
Studio
Électron Libre Productions, ARTE, CNC
Original Title
Alger, la Mecque des Révolutionnaires (1962-1974)
Original Language
French
Cast
Full credits →C
Che Guevara
Self
N
Nelson Mandela
Self
E
Eldridge Cleaver
Self
P
Patrice Lumumba
Self
K
Kathleen Cleaver
Self
M
Miriam Makeba
Self
F
Fidel Castro
Self
Y
Yasser Arafat
Self
J
John F. Kennedy
Self
K
Kwame Ture
Self
A
Apolônio de Carvalho
Self
H
Henry Kissinger
Self
R
Richard Nixon
Self
N
Nâzim Boudjenah
Narrator
