Screening of the film «Deux vies pour l'Algérie et tous les damnés de la terre» (Two lives for Algeria and all the damned of the earth)»

In 1994, in their seventies, Gilberte and William Sportisse arrived from Algeria, threatened by the FIS. Of Jewish faith, he of Arabic mother tongue, they formed a fighting couple, who had started out to fight for Algerian independence, but still had an unshakeable faith in humanity. They enjoy recounting the participation of Algerian Jews in the Second World War and in the fight for Algerian independence. They give us previously unpublished information about the public and clandestine struggles of the Algerian Communist Party before and after independence, and about the repression of activists who, like William and Gilberte Sportisse, were tortured and imprisoned after Colonel Boumédiène came to power. The film is an ode to understanding between people of different origins and cultures, and a tribute to a couple whose youthful character and enthusiasm are still astonishing.