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Jacobin
This solidarity, internationalism and Third-Worldism were foundational to Algerian cinema in its early stages, and helped to shape the country’s cinema to come. The birth of Algerian cinema is closely linked with the struggle against French colonialism. BeginningsThe birth of Algerian cinema, then, was deeply transnational. Jacques Charby, a member of the Réseau Jeanson (the Jeanson Network, which helped the Algerian struggle from France), was active in Algeria and Tunisia and made the first feature length Algerian film, Une si jeaune paix (1965). In a 1962 interview with the French film journal Positif, Gass noted that the main purpose of the film Allons enfants .
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