Said Ould-Khelifa's Zabana! is Algeria's selection for the Best Foreign Language Oscar category. Starring Imad Benchenni, Nicolas Pignon, Khaled Benaïssa, Laurent Gernigon, and Abdelkader Djeriou, Zabana!, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, is described as an impassioned, meticulously researched account of the short life of Algerian freedom fighter Ahmed Zabana, whose execution in 1956 by French colonial authorities ignited the crucial phase of Algeria's struggle for independence - a period that was thoroughly documented in Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece Battle of Algiers. By the way,...
- 9/27/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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