The unknown soldiers: Tobias Grey introduces a film about the North African soldiers in the Second World War which has taken France by storm, and is opening in Britain on March 30th.(FRONTLINE)
History Today, April, 2007 by Grey, Tobias
FOR THE FILM DIRECTOR RACHID BOUCHAREB, whose grandfather fought on the side of the Allies in the Second World War, making Indigenes (literally: natives) was never going to be easy. French-born, though of Algerian descent, Bouchareb had set his heart on making the first big budget war movie to address the roughly 300,000 'native' North African soldiers who helped liberate France and other parts of Europe.
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'The story is a part of France's history which not many people know about and has all but been erased from the school books,' said Bouchareb from the French set of Indigenes ...
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