Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961 (2005)

Original title

Nuit Noire, 17 Octobre 1961

Directed by

Alain Tasma

Genre

war film

Country

France

Runtime

2h

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film shows the violent crackdown by French police on an Algerian protest in Paris in 1961. It follows the events of that night as authorities clash with demonstrators.

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What happens

Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961 is a 2005 French television film directed by Alain Tasma. This is the adaptation of the investigative book "La Bataille de Paris" by Jean-Luc Einaudi (Le Seuil, 1991) and the extensive research conducted by historians on the actual events of the massacre on October 17, 1961, following a deadly repression by the French police during a demonstration organized by the French Federation of the FLN in Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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