The Setif Massacres, a certain May 8, 1945 (movie)
Les Massacres de Sétif, un certain 8 mai 1945- User score: 10
- Production country: France
- Producer: Medhi Lallaoui , Bernard Langlois
- Production companies: Mémoires Vives productions, ARTE, Point du Jour, Éditions Au Nom De La Mémoire
- Genre: Documentary, History, War
- Release date: 5/10/1995
- Run time: 56 min.
Movie description
May 8, 1945, the day of victory over Nazism, is also a day of mourning. In Algiers, thanks to demonstrations for victory, the Algerian flag appears for the first time, thus claiming independence. But in Sétif, the standard bearer is shot dead at the head of the procession and a riot breaks out. The colonial massacre that followed would extend to all of Constantine. The commission of inquiry never delivered its conclusions and an amnesty law erased the traces of this savage repression. Fifty years later, the file is open.
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