CHoosing at Twenty
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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.
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Villi Hermann Director · Eve Martin Writer Jean Reusser Editor
Budget $500K · United States release January 1, 2018 · Produced in Algeria, Switzerland
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Budget
$500,000
Production
Imagofilm Lugano
Production
RTS
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RSI
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Cirta Films
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Radio Télévision Suisse
Production
Algeria · Switzerland
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Original title
CHoisir à vingt ans
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
Arabic · French
Release dates
Brazil · January 1, 2017
São Paulo International Film Festival
Switzerland · August 24, 2017
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 2018
WorldFest Houston
Algeria
January 1, 2018 · Festival International du Cinéma d'Alger
France
January 1, 2018 · Itinerances film festival
Germany
January 1, 2017 · Duisburger Filmwoche
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