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The Battle of Algiers
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #58
- IMDb #261
- Rotten Tomatoes #22
- Metacritic #50
- Letterboxd #22
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #68
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #106
- Metacritic Critics #51
- Metacritic Audience #201
- Criticker #12
- Douban #274
- Kinopoisk #1065
- AlloCiné #287
- Trakt #529
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 76, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 98, everyone else 85.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The film chronicles the brutal conflict during the Algerian War of Independence as the National Liberation Front (FLN) fights to end French colonial rule in Algeria. It depicts the escalating cycle of violence from both perspectives, showing the guerrilla tactics of the FLN insurgents and the severe counter-insurgency methods employed by the French paratroopers sent to crush the rebellion.
Details
- Director
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Writers
- Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
- Studio
- Igor Film, Casbah Film
- Released
- 8 September 1966
- Country
- Italy, Algeria
- Language
- Arabic, French, English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $800.0K
- Box office
- $964.0K
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 win from 6 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| 41st Academy Awards 1969 | Best Director | Gillo Pontecorvo | Nominee |
| 41st Academy Awards 1969 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Gillo Pontecorvo | Nominee |
| 41st Academy Awards 1969 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Franco Solinas | Nominee |
| 39th Academy Awards 1967 | Best International Feature Film | Nominee | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1967 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Italy | Nominee |
| Golden Lion 1965 | Golden Lion | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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6 awards — The Battle of Algiers
×| Best Director | Gillo Pontecorvo | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Gillo Pontecorvo | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Franco Solinas | Nominee |
| Best International Feature Film | Nominee |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Italy | Nominee |
| Golden Lion | Winner |