Le Petit Soldat
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During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.
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A chillingly detached look at ideological fervor and doomed romance. It feels like a cold, intellectual dissection of political extremism, where love is a dangerous casualty of war and ideology.
tensephilosophicalbleakunsettlingsteadypolitical thrillerarthousevintageideological conflictlovebetrayalwar
french colonialismalgerian war (1954-62)anti-imperialism
