CHoosing at Twenty

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Villi Hermann

Writers

Eve Martin, Villi Hermann

Language

French

Country

Switzerland, Algeria

Release date

24 August 2017

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Freddy Buache

  Self

• 

  André Gazut

  Self

• 

  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

• Lillis Kielland

  Self

• Pierre Leray

  Self