Stay In Algeria backdrop

Stay In Algeria 2012 Directed by Philippe Baron , Géraldine Schwarz Rester en Algérie

Algeria, summer 1962, eight hundred thousand French people left their native land in a tragic exodus. But 200,000 of them decided to attempt the adventure of independent Algeria. Over the following decades, political developments would push many of these pieds-noirs into exile towards France. But some never left. Germaine, Adrien, Cécile, Guy, Jean-Paul, Marie-France, Denis and Félix, Algerians of European origin, are among them. Some have Algerian nationality, others do not. Some speak Arabic, others do not. They are the last witnesses to the little-known history of these Europeans who remained out of loyalty to an ideal, a taste for adventure and an unconditional love for a land where they were born, despite all the ups and downs that the free Algeria in full construction had to go through.

Country France
Production Country France
Language French
Spoken Language French
Gneres Documentary , History
Production Companies France Télévisions , Aber Images
Release Date 26 November 2012
52 mins
Cast
Félix Colozzi Self (Militant syndicaliste anticolonialiste et Moudjahid)
Denis Gonzales Self (Prêtre, Directeur des Services Caritas d'Algérie)
Jean-Paul Grangaud Self (Pédiatre)
Maurice Baglietto Self (Militant syndicaliste anticolonialiste et Moudjahid)
Rachid Ramdane Self (Chef de service pédiatrie)