Algiers, May 17, 1945. The glorious Algerian riflemen, accumulating feats of arms and citations within the heroic 7th RTA, disembark from the cruiser "Gloire". Some must return to their barracks in the city of Sétif. They have vaguely heard that on May 8, clashes took place in their city between Algerians and Europeans, during demonstrations celebrating the victory of the allies.
Censorship is watching. Hidden until today and for the first time put into images, the story of the events of May 8, 45 in Sétif and its region, is that of a real massacre of civilians. An organized insurrection of the independence fighters of the time? A provocation aimed at "subduing the nationalists"? A peaceful demonstration degenerating into a confrontation?
This film confronts archives, testimonies, and investigation reports that were inaccessible and incommunicable until now, to express the horror that this date symbolizes for generations of Algerian nationalist activists who would take up arms 10 years later.
Fifty years later, Mehdi Lallaoui and the journalist Bernard Langlois made the first documentary on the massacres of Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata, broadcast on Arte on May 10, 1995. In addition, the association Au nom de la mémoire co-published with Syros a book, Chroniques d'un massacre, written by the Algerian historian Boucif Mekhaled. The film, with its effective classical writing alternating archive images, photos and unpublished testimonies of survivors, has been screened many times during activist meetings and in schools.
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