October 17, 1961 (2005)

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Country: France
Genres: Drama, History
Release: 2005-10-19
Director: Alain Tasma
Writers: Patrick Rotman , François-Olivier Rousseau , Alain Tasma
Language: Arabic | French
Stars: Clotilde Courau , Florence Thomassin , Vahina Giocante , Ouassini Embarek , Atmen Kelif , Jalil Naciri , Thierry Fortineau , Aurélien Recoing , Serge Riaboukine , Jean-Michel Portal
Runtime: 120 min
Awards: 4 wins & 2 nominations
AKA: Czarna noc 17 pazdziernika 1961 (Poland) , October 17, 1961 , Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 , Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (France, French Republic) , A Batalha de Paris (Brazil) , Noite Negra (Brazil)
Plot: A scared young French 'flic', his violently racist colleagues, a polite Algerian schoolboy, a scrupulous police sergeant, a tenacious journalist, hot-blooded merciless FLN-militants (FLN = the National Liberation Front of Algeria), a naive school teacher, a nasty chief of police and a ruthless police prefect are all featuring in a possible string of events leading up to an actual piece of French-Algerian history: the bloody confrontation between a peaceful, 20,000 strong FLN-demonstration and a bloodthirsty police mob in the streets of Paris, on the night of October 17, 1961.
IMDB:tt0442379