October 17, 1961: Black Night = 17 octobre 1961: Nuit noire
Barcode: 58954114
Call Number: V-FRE 150
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 108 min.
Date: 2005
System Requirements: PAL, Region 2
DVD Region: Region 2
Language: French
Creator: Directed by Alain Tasma
Description: A scared young French 'flic', his violently racist colleagues, a polite Algerian schoolboy, a scrupulous police sergeant, a tenacious journalist, hot-blooded merciless FLN-militants (FLN = the National Liberation Front of Algeria), a naive school teacher, a nasty chief of police and a ruthless police prefect are all featuring in a possible string of events leading up to an actual piece of French-Algerian history: the bloody confrontation between a peaceful, 20,000 strong FLN-demonstration and a bloodthirsty police mob in the streets of Paris, on the night of October 17, 1961.
Collection: Language Resource Center