Apr 12, 2000
114 min
Full-HD

Return to Algiers (2000)

Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.

Category

Drama

Country

France

Companies

Alexandra Film Canal+

Antoine de Caunes

Pierre Nivel

Samy Naceri

Issam

Mathilda May

Nelly Azera

Nozha Khouadra

Leila/Amina

Pierre Vaneck

Blanville

Lorànt Deutsch

Versanti

Wadeck Stanczak

Francis

Elsa Zylberstein

La femme de Pierre Nivel

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