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.
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- Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films
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Freddy Buache as Self
André Gazut as Self
Diego Masson as Self
Nils Andersson as Self
Jacques Baynac as Self
Anita Bernard as Self
André Bernard as Self
Claude Garino as Self
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Villi Hermann · Director, Writer
Eve Martin · Writer
Jean Reusser · Editor
Emilie Chappatte · Editor
Silvana Bezzola Rigolini · Producer
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