CHoosing at Twenty
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.
- Year: 2017
- Country: Algeria, Switzerland
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Imagofilm Lugano, RTS, RSI, Cirta Films
- Keyword: pacifism, algeria, french colonialism, algerian war (1954-62), anti-colonialism, conscientious objectors, djazair, antimilitarisme
- Director: Villi Hermann
- Cast: Freddy Buache, André Gazut, Diego Masson, Nils Andersson, Jacques Baynac, Anita Bernard
