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Return to Algiers

12 Apr 2000
114 min
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Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.

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Mathilda May

Nelly Azera

Elsa Zylberstein

La femme de Pierre Nivel

Antoine de Caunes

Pierre Nivel

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Jean-Claude de Goros

Henri Nivel, le père de Pierre Nivel

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Raphaël Lenglet

Issam, jeune

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Dora Doll

Paula Azera

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