Only One Hero, The People
Mathieu Rigouste
2020 - 81 min - Video Full HD - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France

On December 11th, 1960, after 130 years of French colonialism, the Algerian people defeated the military counter-revolution and invaded the forbidden neighbourhoods of Algeria's large cities. With women, elders and children on the front line, the demonstrators took over the streets in thousands of places, and organized soup kitchens, clandestine hospitals...
While the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) had been deeply weakened by the French counterinsurgency, it's the people who took over the war of independence and snatched its political side.