Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
Brahim Hadjadj
as Ali La Pointe
Saadi Yacef
as El-Hadi Jaffar
Fouzia El Kader
as Halima
Jean Martin
as Colonel Philippe Mathieu
Mohamed Ben Kassen
as Petit Omar
Mohamed Hadj Smaïn
as
Larbi Zekkal
as Combattant FLN
Rouiched
as The Drunk Man (uncredited)
Noureddine Brahimi
as Responsable FLN
Si Mohamed Baghdadi
as Larbi Ben M'hidi
Abderrahmane Brahimi
as Le Marié de la Casbah
Fatiha Djoudi
as La Mariée de la Casbah
