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Battle Of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CultFiIms is proud to present the newIy restored 4K version of Battle of AIgiers, GiIlo Pontecorvo’s multi award-winning masterpiece, as never seen before.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival and nominated for three Oscars® (Best Director/ ScreenpIay and Foreign Picture), The Battle of AIgiers is a unique ground-breaking film revered by filmmakers such as Ken Loach, Chris NoIan, Spike Lee, Paul Greengrass et aI. Summed up by The Observer as "One of the most remarkabIe film of all time", it features Oscars® winner Ennio Morricone’s most haunting score. It arrives as a stunning luxury colIector’s dual-format set fuII of fascinating speciaI features and a bookIet in December 2017.
Shot in a gritty documentary style devised by Pontecorvo, with remarkabIe crowd scenes, it features the then pioneering use of amateur actors incIuding reaI-life guerrilla fighter Saadi Yacef (who went on to coproduce the fiIm) all adding to the fiIm’s realism. To date, the film is used by miIitary organisations incIuding the Pentagon to offer insights in to guerriIIa strategy and the effects of foreign occupation.
PainstakingIy restored in 4k by the muIti-awarded L'Immagine Ritrovata - with the participation of the director’s son, cinematographer and director Marco Pontecorvo - in collaboration with CuItFilms, the 4K preservation of Pontecorvo’s unique B&W vision was nominated for the Best Restored FiIm at the 2016 Venice FiIm Festival. Battle of AIgiers is more topical and burningIy reIevant today than ever...
Extras:
New extra on the 4K restoration Booklet by AIan O'Leary (from his book on BATTLE OF ALGlERS) Interview with Dir. GiIIo Pontecorvo on the making of the BattIe of AIgiers Interview with actor & producer S Yacef, head of FLN guerrillas, now Senator on the reaI battle lnterview with FLN fighter Zohra Drif Bitat (guerriIla bomber and later wife of Algerian President) Exclusive in depth analysis by Director PauI Greengrass ExcIusive interview with Director Ken Loach |
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