Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People
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Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People

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Overview

The life and political activism of Messali Hadj (1898-1974), an Algerian internationalist politician who played a pioneering role in the process leading to Algerian independence, which he demanded as early as 1927. He was initially secretary of the North African Star (ENA), then in 1937 he founded the Algerian People's Party (PPA), in 1946 he founded the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD), and finally in 1954, the Algerian National Movement (MNA). In 1937, the leadership of the North African Star (ENA) created its flag, green with a white star and crescent. Messali Hadj's wife, Emilie Busquant-Messali, simply sewed this ENA flag by machine; it would later become the flag of the PPA. In 1943, Messali Hadj, in conjunction with the party leadership, created the ENA-PPA flag, green and white with a red star and crescent, which would later become the current flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

Director
  • Benny Malapa
Writers
  • Benny Malapa
  • Jean-Marc Schiappa
Producers
  • Malik Bine

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Top cast

Messali Hadj
Messali Hadj
Algerian politician (archive footage)
Jean-Marc Schiappa
Jean-Marc Schiappa
French historian
Émilie Busquant
Émilie Busquant
Anti-colonial activist (archive footage)
Djanina Messali-Benkelfat
Djanina Messali-Benkelfat
Self (archive footage)
Léon Blum
Léon Blum
French politician (archive footage)
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Mustapha Ben Mohamed
PPA-MNA activist
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Ali Messali
Self (archive footage)
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Ali Agouni
PPA-MNA activist & Moudjahid
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Bachir Ferrag
PPA-MNA activist
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Rabah Bélaïd
Professor of History and Political Science, University of Batna
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Mohammed Mrabet
PPA-MTLD activist
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Hadj Omar Lachachi
PPA-MTLD activist

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