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Summer 1962. The wave of repatriated settlers from Algeria breaks on the chilly welcome of metropolitan France, then on the eve of vacation. More than a million of them are stranded along the coast after years of war and violence. But metropolitan France knows little about their French land, apart from the fact that, to keep it part of France, entire families had seen a relative be sent there and sometimes to die in combat. In this film, 62 witnesses relate the epic conditions in which their ancestors came to settle on Algerian soil. Joining the Jews, who had set down roots there long before, here were the farm workers who had been forced by extreme poverty to leave Spain, Italy, Prussia and Malta, political opponents deported by Napoleon III, Communards, Neopolitan fishermen, a few adventurers too… All those who would make up the "pieds-noirs" community in the early 20th century. In this film, 45 years later, memories mingle, sometimes clash, as witnesses relate for the first time their personal history, that of the “Europeans of Algeria.”

France - 2006 - 2 x 1h20 - DV Cam - Colour

Director Gilles Perez Camera Claire Feinstein Sound Cyrille Carillon Editing Laurence Generet, Sylvie Laugier, Elisabeth Sacier Music Sylvie Aniorte-Paz, Bernard Menu, Gil Aniorte-Paz

Production 13 au Sud, La Bastide, 3 rue Elie Pelas, 13016 Marseille, France Tél : +33 (0)4 9109 1423 Fax : +33 (0)4 9113 7324 E-mail : contact@13ausud.com Co-Production France 3 Méditerranée, France 3 Corse with the  participation of France 3

Sales 13 au Sud, La Bastide, 3 rue Elie Pelas, 13016 Marseille, France Tél : +33 (0)4 9109 1423 Fax : +33 (0)4 9113 7324 E-mail : contact@13ausud.com