Battle of Algiers

Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers, though filmed in the late 1950’s, remains one of the most powerful and emotionally stimulating films of the modern age. The realism captured by the director of photography, Marcello Gatti, laid the blueprint for directors and photographers to mold and shape equally great works in years to come. Gatti’s revolutionary use of the hand-held camera was instrumental in creating the simulated eyewitness account. …

…documented disasters in history, The Battle of Algiers remains one of the most emotionally powerful films I have ever scene. As stated earlier, finding the beauty in an event so shocking it is only seen by a chosen few once in a lifetime is an incredible cinematic, as well as, human feat. The bottom line is that Pontecorvo exposes us to the radiance of human tragedy, no matter how hard we try to look away.