Algeria's Bloody Years, is a documentary in 2 parts: 1. A People Without a Voice (80'), 2. A Land in Mourning (78').

Part 1: A People Without a Voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face-off between the Islamists and the government began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after by the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunges Algeria into chaos.

Part 2: A Land in Mourning: the spiral of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical undercurrents of the war are approached here. More than 100,000 dead, an unheard-of level of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official showcase of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.

Director: Patrice Barrat, Malek Bensmaïl, Thierry Leclère
Writing: Patrice Barrat, Malek Bensmaïl, Thierry Leclère, Samia Chala
Image: Mustapha Belmihoub, Baudouin Koenig, Bachir Sellami Sound: Cécile Viallet, Mohamed Ziouani
Editing: Corinne Godeau
Production: Article Z, Canal+, CNC, Procirep, European MEDEA program, Sundance Institute.

http://www.malekbensmail.com/project/algeries-parties-12/