CHoosing at Twenty
CHoosing at Twenty

CHoosing at Twenty

CHoisir à vingt ans

Release date : 2017-08-24

Production country :

Algeria,

Switzerland

Production company :

Imagofilm Lugano,

RTS,

RSI,

Cirta Films

Status : Released

Durasi : 100 Min.

Popularity : 0.434

6.8

Total Vote : 4

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.