CHoosing at Twenty

  • Rated 6.8 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2017
  • 1h 40m
  • Documentary

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.

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Director
Villi Hermann
Starring
Freddy Buache, André Gazut, Diego Masson, Nils Andersson

Cast

  • Freddy Buache

    Freddy Buache

    Self

  • André Gazut

    André Gazut

    Self

  • Diego Masson

    Diego Masson

    Self

  • Nils Andersson

    Self

  • Jacques Baynac

    Self

  • Anita Bernard

    Self

  • André Bernard

    Self

  • Claude Garino

    Self

  • Jean-Claude Girardin

    Self

  • Claude Glayman

    Self

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