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Nous n’étions pas des héros, 115mn, Director Nasreddine Guenifi
A true story of Abdelhamid Benzine, who was transferred, with 60 other prisoners, from the Lambèse prison to the "special" camp "the Morand"
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Embassy of Algeria in London 3 Riding House Street #1 London W1W 7DR United Kingdom
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“We were not heroes", a feature film released in 2017, evokes the months of internment of a group of Algerian nationalists at the Morand or Boughari camp, in the region of Medea (North center of Algeria), between February 1961 and June 1962.
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Based on "The camp", a true story of Abdelhamid Benzine, who was transferred, with 60 other prisoners, from the Lambèse prison to this "special" camp.
Testimonies were collected to give the history of this camp where soldiers of the foreign legion, including former Nazi soldiers, were in charge of the psychological mission of "turning" militants and fighters of the ALN (Army of National Liberation to make them accept the idea of "French Algeria".