Acting
Noël Favrelière
Born — Died
1934-05-11 — 2017-11-11
Place of birth
La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
3 titles
Noël Favrelière, known as Nordine, born on May 11, 1934 in La Rochelle, is a painter who was a non-commissioned officer in the French army during the Algerian War, and who deserted in 1956. He then joined the ranks of the ALN fighters for ten months. He inspired many characters of objectors and resistance fighters, including the one in René Vautier's film "Avoir Vingt Ans Dans Les Aurès" (1972). He was part of the "Righteous of Algeria" who supported the Algerian people's fight for their independence. As a child, Noël Favrelière was marked by the Nazi Occupation and the Resistance fights during the Liberation, in September 1944. He lived in Paris, in artistic circles, then left to do his mi…
Known for
9.5This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to power of Charles De Gaulle. The film's most valuable contributions are its interviews with all sorts of people who lived through this period of history, from Marshall Petain's lawyer (Petain headed the Vichy government of occupied France) to resistance figures, and Frenchmen who fought on the side of the Nazis in Russia.
Français, si vous saviez
1973
6.8This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.
The Memory of Justice
1976
10.0"Algeria, The Two Soldiers" tells the true story of two young French soldiers during the Algerian War, who were driven in two completely opposite directions by the same keen sense of honor: Noël Favrelière deserted to free a young Algerian Muslim prisoner who was going to be executed, and René Técourt, to continue the fight for French Algeria alongside the OAS ultras. Two emblematic examples, which describe in a direct, carnal way, what happened there.
Algeria, The Two Soldiers
2017
Film credits
1970s · 2 titles
9.5This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to power of Charles De Gaulle. The film's most valuable contributions are its interviews with all sorts of people who lived through this period of history, from Marshall Petain's lawyer (Petain headed the Vichy government of occupied France) to resistance figures, and Frenchmen who fought on the side of the Nazis in Russia.
Français, si vous saviez
1973
6.8This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.
The Memory of Justice
1976