
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their aid, while in France they were condemned as traitors to the country. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann went to a region devastated by war near the Algerian-Moroccan border, to help rebuild a school. In 2016 he returned to Algeria and reunited with his former students. He also met French refractories, now living in France or Switzerland.
Freddy Buache, André Gazut, Diego Masson, Nils Andersson, Jacques Baynac, Anita Bernard, André Bernard, Claude Garino

1983, The Marchers for Equality
2023

Zinet, Algiers, Happiness
2023

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
2002

Congo-Océan, un chemin de fer et de sang
2024

How Much I Love You
1985

Dreams have no titles
2022

Algeria: Drink, Smoke and Love
2002

Salt and Rock
1996

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
2025

Resistant
2021

Le Grand Désert
1950

Tissalatine - Le Rappel Du Hoggar
2025