Il ribelle di Algeri

And what a performance for the greatest French actor ever, with Jean Gabin, the most widely known. Here he plays a lost soldier, whose fate is lost in advance because of a desperate fight. His performance is realistic at the most and the directing absolutely flawless, never boring, tense. Alain Cavalier also gave us here, just before MISE A SAC, one of his classical part of career, before he got lost in a very intellectual second part, very "sealed" and not destined at all to wide audiences. This story evokes the post French Algerian war and its whereabouts, with OAS underground matters. The cast besides Delon is also excellent. Especially Robert Castel in a supporting role very close to what he really was: an French Algerian "pied noir", a colonist living in Algeria and fighting against independance. Robert Castel who also was an OAS member in René Gainville's LE COMPLOT. Of course "pied noir" was connecetd with OAS in those times.