''Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès'' (English: To Be Twenty in the Aures) is a 1972 film.

Synopsis

A group of young pacifists from

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is taken to a camp destined to deserters. They end up by accepting the increasing violence with which they are trained, and become true killing machines. In April, 1961, they are moved to the

Aurès Aurès () is a natural region located in the mountainous area of the Aurès Mountains, Aurès range, in eastern Algeria. The region includes the provinces of Algeria, Algerian provinces of Batna Province, Batna, Tebessa Province, Tebessa, Consta ...

mountains in

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

where they face off against troops from the National Liberation Army. During the battle, the battalion captures a rebel fighter which they shall execute the next morning. Their most precious ideals are supposed to become overridden by sheer discipline.

Cast

Philippe Léotard Philippe Léotard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 – 25 August 2001) was a French actor, poet and singer. Biography He was born in Nice, one of seven children - four girls, then three boys, of whi ...

as Lieutenant Perrin *

Alexandre Arcady Alexandre Arcady (born 17 March 1947) is a French actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Alexandre Arcady was born in Algiers, Algeria. He emigrated to France at the age of fifteen. His son is filmmaker Alexandre Aja. ...

as Noël * Hamid Djellouli as Youssef *

Jacques Canselier Jacques or Jacq are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over one hundred identified noble families related t ...

as Coco *

Jean-Michel Ribes Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directe ...

as Le curé *

Alain Scoff Alain may refer to: People * Alain (given name), common given name, including list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Alain (surname) * "Alain", a pseudonym for cartoonist Daniel Brustlein * Alain, a standard author abbreviation u ...

as Lomic, the soldier * Jean-Jacques Moreau as Jacques * Michel Elias as Robert, the teacher * Yves Branellec as Youenn *

Philippe Brizard Philippe Brizard (28 August 1933 – 20 February 2021) was a French actor. Partial filmography *' (1963) - Un spectateur hilare à la conférence (uncredited) *' (1964) - Le coiffeur (uncredited) *'' Cent briques et des tuiles'' (1965) - Zecca ...

as La Marie *

Charles Trétout Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

as Charles * Pierre Vautier as Pierrick * Alain Vautier as Lanick *

Bernard Ramel Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It has West Germanic origin and is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern ...

as Nanard

Prizes

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...

, 1972.

References

External links

* 1972 films French war drama films 1970s French-language films Films set in the French colonial empire Anticolonial film Films directed by René Vautier 1970s French films 1970s war drama films Algerian War films French-language war drama films {{1970s-France-film-stub