CHoosing at Twenty (movie)
CHoisir à vingt ans- User score: 6.8
- Production country: Algeria, Switzerland
- Producer: Villi Hermann
- Production companies: Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/24/2017
- Run time: 100 min.
Movie description
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.
