Benoît Magimel

(Narrator)

Louis Gardel

(Self - Novelist)

Marie Elbe

(Self - Journalist)

Cédric Villani

(Self)

Nicole Garcia

(Self - French from Algeria)

Slimane Zeghidour

(Self - Journalist)

Bachir Hadj Ali

(Self - ALN Officer)

Yamina Benguigui

(Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist)

Germaine Tillion

(Self - Ethnologist (voice) (archive footage))

Maurice Viollette

(Self - French Politician (voice) (archive footage))

Danièle Michel-Chich

(Self - French from Algeria)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Ferhat Abbas

(Self - President of the Algerian Republic (archive footage))

Ahmed Ben Bella

(Self - First President of Algeria (archive footage))

Abdelkader Hamoumou

(Self - President of a Harkis Association and Former Moghazni)

Kateb Yacine

(Self - Poet)

Pierre Mendès France

(Self (archive footage))

Kahina Bahloul

(Self - Islamologist and Imam)

Sanhadja Akrouf

(Self - Daughter of an Algerian Nationalist, writer)

Henri Paul Eydoux

(Self - Member of Jacques Soustelle's Cabinet)

Jean-Marc Deleplanque

(Self - Sub-Prefect at Balma, Algeria)

Zohra Drif-Bitat

(Self - Moudjahidine)

Guy Mollet

(Self - Council President (archive footage))

Yacef Saâdi

(Self - FLN Member)

Henri Alleg

(Self - Journalist (archive footage))

Jacques Massu

(Self - General (archive footage))

Paul Teitgen

(Self (archive) -)

Djaouher Akrour

(Self - FLN member)

Maurice Mouchan

(Self - Mayor of El-Biar (archive footage))

Roger Saboureau

(Self - Parachute Lieutenant in Algeria)

Saïd Mohammedi

(Self - ALN chief officer (archive footage))

Christian Pineau

(Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive))

Charles de Gaulle

(Self (archive))

Ali Haroun

(Self)

C'était la guerre d'Algérie