Moscow Film Society: The Battle of Algiers

Wednesday, February 4 at 7 PM

“The film is not just a relentlessly gripping entertainment but also a cinematic Rorschach blot, a moral miasma that tosses our sympathies this way and that.”
— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

Moscow Film Society presents THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS as part of their Resistance series. One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today.

 Rated: Not Rated | 2 hr 1 min | Tickets: $8 Adult / Film Pass