It Was the War of Algeria

Ahmed Ben Bella

as Self - First President of Algeria (archive footage)

Ferhat Abbas

as Self - President of the Algerian Republic (archive footage)

Bachir Hadj Ali

as Self - ALN Officer

Slimane Zeghidour

as Self - Journalist

Kateb Yacine

as Self - Poet

Louis Gardel

as Self - Novelist

Germaine Tillion

as Self - Ethnologist (voice) (archive footage)

Yacef Saâdi

as Self - FLN Member

Zohra Drif-Bitat

as Self - Moudjahidine

Henri Alleg

as Self - Journalist (archive footage)

Ali Haroun

as Self

Paul Teitgen

as Self (archive footage)

Saïd Mohammedi

as Self - ALN chief officer (archive footage)

Yamina Benguigui

as Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist

Nicole Garcia

as Self - French from Algeria

John F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle

as Self (archive footage)

Pierre Mendès France

as Self (archive footage)

Guy Mollet

as Self - Council President (archive footage)

Benoît Magimel

as Narrator

Abdelkader Hamoumou

as Self - President of a Harkis Association and Former Moghazni

Djaouher Akrour

as Self - FLN member

Kahina Bahloul

as Self - Islamologist and Imam

Sanhadja Akrouf

as Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist, writer

Danièle Michel-Chich

as Self - French from Algeria

Marie Elbe

as Self - Journalist

Cédric Villani

as Self

Maurice Viollette

as Self - French Politician (voice) (archive footage)

Henri Paul Eydoux

as Self - Member of Jacques Soustelle's Cabinet

Jean-Marc Deleplanque

as Self - Sub-Prefect at Balma, Algeria

Maurice Mouchan

as Self - Mayor of El-Biar (archive footage)

Roger Saboureau

as Self - Parachute Lieutenant in Algeria

Christian Pineau

as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)

Jacques Massu

as Self - General (archive footage)