Ahmed Ben Bella
Self - First President of Algeria (archive footage)
Ferhat Abbas
Self - President of the Algerian Republic (archive footage)
Bachir Hadj Ali
Self - ALN Officer
Slimane Zeghidour
Self - Journalist
Kateb Yacine
Self - Poet
Louis Gardel
Self - Novelist
Germaine Tillion
Self - Ethnologist (voice) (archive footage)
Yacef Saâdi
Self - FLN Member
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Self - Moudjahidine
Henri Alleg
Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Ali Haroun
Self
Paul Teitgen
Self (archive footage)
Saïd Mohammedi
Self - ALN chief officer (archive footage)
Yamina Benguigui
Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist
Nicole Garcia
Self - French from Algeria
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
Pierre Mendès France
Guy Mollet
Self - Council President (archive footage)
Benoît Magimel
Narrator
Abdelkader Hamoumou
Self - President of a Harkis Association and Former Moghazni
Djaouher Akrour
Self - FLN member
Kahina Bahloul
Self - Islamologist and Imam
Sanhadja Akrouf
Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist, writer
Danièle Michel-Chich
Marie Elbe
Cédric Villani
Maurice Viollette
Self - French Politician (voice) (archive footage)
Henri Paul Eydoux
Self - Member of Jacques Soustelle's Cabinet
Jean-Marc Deleplanque
Self - Sub-Prefect at Balma, Algeria
Maurice Mouchan
Self - Mayor of El-Biar (archive footage)
Roger Saboureau
Self - Parachute Lieutenant in Algeria
Christian Pineau
Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)
Jacques Massu
Self - General (archive footage)
