So Young a Peace

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So Young a Peace, is a 1965 Algerian movie, directed by Jacques Charby, and starring Hassan El-Hassani, André Thorent, Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri). with a runtime of 90 minutes.

Overview

So Young a Peace is a landmark Algerian drama and the first feature-length fictional film produced in Algeria following independence. Directed with quiet sensitivity, the film confronts one of the most urgent yet overlooked consequences of armed conflict: what happens to children who have known nothing but war. Freed at last, these children struggle to rediscover how to play — and find themselves reaching instinctively for the only games they know, games of soldiers and combat. A meditative and humanist work that poetically examines how war reshapes childhood and whether peace can ever be truly taught.

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