The Cinema de revolta cycle screens La Batalla d'Alger, a 1966 Italian-Algerian film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, with a script by Franco Solinas and music of Ennio Morricone, about the Algerian War of Independence.
In the mid-20th century, Algeria was a former French colony with a minority of European origin, among whom were tens of thousands of Minorcan descendants known as maonesos. In 1957 the revolt launched in 1954 by the National Liberation Front became more intense, in the form of indiscriminate terrorist actions. The rebels become strong in the Alcassaba neighborhood of the capital, known as the 'battle of Algiers'.
The French Republic reacted sadly by making use of the 10th parachute division, commanded by General Jacques Massu, who used state terrorism.
