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)

Yacef Saâdi

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