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Mémoires du 17 octobre 1961
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Mémoires du 17 octobre 1961

2002-01-01 · 17 min · ★ 10.0

Documentary · History · Drama

Three demonstrators from October 17, 1961, and a journalist recount the peaceful success of the demonstration and its brutal repression in the streets of Paris. Five months before the end of the Algerian War, the Gaullist government violently suppressed (40 to 300 deaths in a single evening, according to various sources) a peaceful demonstration by the entire Algerian civilian population of the Paris region, protesting the curfew imposed solely on this population (all participants held French citizenship). The government long denied this state crime; the official version: 3 deaths! In 1962, these events were granted amnesty by a simple decree (later enacted into law) issued by the same Gaullist government.

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Directors
Bernard Richard, Faïza Guène
Production companies
Les Engraineurs
Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Monique HervoMonique HervoSelf
Georges AzenstarckGeorges AzenstarckSelf
Omar TouilOmar TouilSelf
Ahmed TouilAhmed TouilSelf

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