In the middle of the Algerian War, Maurice Papon, then Prefect of Police for Paris, orders a curfew for “French Muslims from Algeria.” This leads to a great demonstration in the streets of Paris on 17 October, 1961, which is violently repressed. The police arrest 11,000 people. This film is the result of the work of the Audin committee which, shocked by the situation, decided to create a documentary bringing together the testimonies of those who witnessed the massacre. Banned at first, it is only in 1973, after a hunger strike by filmmaker and former member of the resistance René Vautier, that Octobre à Paris, a true historical document, finally received its screen certificate.
Production
With Utopia cinema
In partnership with Transfuge, France Médias Monde
