Mémoires du 17 octobre 1961 (2002)

• Documentary
• History
• Drama

Three demonstrators from October 17, 1961, and a journalist recount the peaceful success of the demonstration and its brutal repression in the streets of Paris. Five months before the end of the Algerian War, the Gaullist government violently suppressed (40 to 300 deaths in a single evening, according to various sources) a peaceful demonstration by the entire Algerian civilian population of the Paris region, protesting the curfew imposed solely on this population (all participants held French citizenship). The government long denied this state crime; the official version: 3 deaths! In 1962, these events were granted amnesty by a simple decree (later enacted into law) issued by the same Gaullist government.

Rating

10 / 10 (1 votes)

Release date

January 1, 2002

Runtime

17m

Language

French

Director

Bernard Richard, Faïza Guène

Status

Released