C'était la Guerre d'Algérie

Ahmed Ben Bella

Self - First President of Algeria (archive footage)

Ferhat Abbas

Self - President of the Algerian Republic (archive footage)

Bachir Hadj Ali

Self - ALN Officer

Slimane Zeghidour

Self - Journalist

Kateb Yacine

Self - Poet

Louis Gardel

Self - Novelist

Germaine Tillion

Self - Ethnologist (voice) (archive footage)

Saadi Yacef

Self - FLN Member

Zohra Drif-Bitat

Self - Moudjahidine

Henri Alleg

Self - Journalist (archive footage)

Ali Haroun

Self

Paul Teitgen

Self (archive footage)

Saïd Mohammedi

Self - ALN chief officer (archive footage)

Yamina Benguigui

Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist

Nicole Garcia

Self - French from Algeria

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Mendès France

Self (archive footage)

Guy Mollet

Self - Council President (archive footage)

Benoît Magimel

Narrator

Abdelkader Hamoumou

Self - President of a Harkis Association and Former Moghazni

Djaouher Akrour

Self - FLN member

Kahina Bahloul

Self - Islamologist and Imam

Sanhadja Akrouf

Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist, writer

Danièle Michel-Chich

Self - French from Algeria

Marie Elbe

Self - Journalist

Cédric Villani

Self

Maurice Viollette

Self - French Politician (voice) (archive footage)

Henri Paul Eydoux

Self - Member of Jacques Soustelle's Cabinet

Jean-Marc Deleplanque

Self - Sub-Prefect at Balma, Algeria

Maurice Mouchan

Self - Mayor of El-Biar (archive footage)

Roger Saboureau

Self - Parachute Lieutenant in Algeria

Christian Pineau

Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)

Jacques Massu

Self - General (archive footage)