CHoosing at Twenty
6.8(4) 2017-08-24 100 minDocumentary
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.
DirectorVilli Hermann
WriterVilli Hermann
WriterEve Martin
ProducerVilli Hermann
ProducerSilvana Bezzola Rigolini
ProducerIrène Challand
ProducerHachemi Zertal
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Freddy Buache
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André Gazut
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Diego Masson
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Nils Andersson
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Jacques Baynac
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Anita Bernard
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André Bernard
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Claude Garino
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Jean-Claude Girardin
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Claude Glayman
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Lillis Kielland
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Pierre Leray
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Paul Kobisch
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Simone Mohr
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Jean Mohr
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Michel Monod
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Louis Orhant
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Jacques Pous
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