Movie: The Law of Silence

Top 3 Billed Cast

René Vautier
René Vautier

Self

Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg

Self

Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Self

  • HomePage

    La Loi Du Silence

  • Overview

    The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1963 Amnesty Law and the consequences it had on studies of the Algerian War. It brings together interviews conducted in 2002 with Henri Alleg, editor of the daily newspaper Alger Républicain from 1951 to 1955, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and essayist. It also features incredible statements from General Massu and lawyers unraveling the various legal defenses of people like Jean-Marie Le Pen. Not only does Moïra have her father, René Vautier, speak, but she also includes footage he himself filmed forty years earlier. A very interesting report, which notably reminds us that the Amnesty is not a pardon but the erasure of the sentence and also of the crime itself.

  • Release Date

    2003-10-10

  • Average

    9

  • Rating:

    4.5 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    Français
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
100%

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?(fr)

1975-01-01

On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstein Gang) began. Four members appeared before the Stuttgart court to answer for the attacks that had been raging for five years in the young Federal Republic of Germany. The documentary, whose title is borrowed from Berthold Brecht's In Praise of Dialectics, recounts the conditions of the trials and detention of the Baader-Meinstein Gang members and the disqualification of Klaus Croissant as their lawyer.

GCW Fight Club 2022 Night 2
83%

GCW Fight Club 2022 Night 2(en)

2022-10-09

Fight Club was a two-day professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) that was held on October 8 and 9, 2022. Both nights of the event were held in Atlantic City, New Jersey; night 1 of the event took place at the Garden Pier at the Showboat while night 2 was held inside Showboat Hotel itself. The event aired on PPV via the FITE TV service.

Helplessness
80%

Helplessness(pl)

2022-06-13

Bianka spends her days alone in a large house, lives in the rhythm of repetitive activities and tries to get at least a little warmth from her mother.

Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre
100%

Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre(he)

2023-12-23

This film provides a retrospective of 24 hours at the Nova festival in Re'im through the lens of young individuals who endured the horror.

ROH & NJPW: War of The Worlds - Toronto
70%

ROH & NJPW: War of The Worlds - Toronto(en)

2018-05-11

Page Challenges Young For TV Title In Toronto ROH Stars To Take On LIJ In Toronto Naito Faces Big Challenge In Toronto Young Bucks Handpick Toronto Opponents Making Long Awaited Return First-Time Dream Match Signed For Toronto Second Championship Match Announced For Toronto First IWGP US Title Defense Signed For Canada

Cabal in Kabul
85%

Cabal in Kabul(fr)

2006-11-15

This is the story of the last two Jews in Afghanistan. All the other Jews have left a long time ago. Isaac and Zabulon live alone in the abandoned synagogue. The older of the two, the ruddy-faced Isaac, is Kabul’s sorcerer-healer. He makes cabalistic amulets, which he sells to Muslims to drive out demons from women, or from soldiers exhausted by the war. The other Jew, Zabulon, has the same Afghan customers, but sells them the wine, which he produces illegally.

The Severed Heads Are Smiling.
100%

The Severed Heads Are Smiling.(fa)

2025-04-25

A passenger picks up a woman at dawn who is to be a guest until midnight. Their journey begins...

Through Main Street with an Orchestra
64%

Through Main Street with an Orchestra(ru)

1986-05-12

Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby - playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.

Florence Fight Club
79%

Florence Fight Club(it)

2010-01-01

Four men decided to enter in the oldest Fight Club of the History, The Florentine Football tournament. A father and son, a black guy, an old champion and outsider clerk will enter in an arena of the time to win their fears, to go over their limits, to be heroes for a day.

312
70%

312(ta)

2018-10-19

A BACHELOR SEEKING A ROOM FOR A RENT , AFTER HE RENTED A ROOM HE FOUND A OLD MYSTERIOUS DOLL .

Pekkle: Find the Secret Treasure!
98%

Pekkle: Find the Secret Treasure!(ja)

1993-04-21

Pekkle and his friends find a treasure map that will lead them to a stone that will grant one wish, and they go on a treasure hunt.

Insane Fight Club II - This Time It’s Personal
83%

Insane Fight Club II - This Time It’s Personal(en)

2015-01-21

Insane Fight Club is back. This year the boys are taking their unique form of entertainment to England as they stage fight nights in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle.

Paloma Faith: As I Am
70%

Paloma Faith: As I Am(en)

2021-03-27

Paloma Faith exploded onto the music scene in 2009 with her debut album, which went platinum within weeks. She quickly became a household name, known for her retro-soul sound and her dramatic aesthetic, with appearances as a judge on ‘The Voice’ and in numerous TV series. In her decade-long career, she has headlined at Glastonbury, had multi-million album sales and topped the music charts across the world. This observational documentary is an intimate look at one of the most turbulent moments in her career so far - touring as a new mother.

La Miseria
100%

La Miseria(es)

2021-02-23

Cédula ciudadano
70%

Cédula ciudadano(es)

2000-06-09

In this dark, screwball comedy, Gustavo Perez has only a few hours to survive the bureaucracy, get an official stamp on his I.D. and put his military papers in order, or it's the draft and straight to the snipers and the border wars.

La Fortuna de Hank
100%

La Fortuna de Hank(en)

2016-05-27

An evil Commodore wishes to destroy the ways of the samurai in C. 1100 Japan. When two samurai meet up after many years of being split by the Commodore, a big Japanese mafia lord, El Jefe, has forced one of the brothers to obtain an ancient samurai treasure in only two weeks. If the brothers don't find it by then, it will be the end of them forever...

Guest from Kuban
82%

Guest from Kuban(ru)

1956-02-06

A young man comes to work to kolkhoz where no one knows that he has no experience whatsoever.

Similar Movies

Liberators Take Liberties
46%

Liberators Take Liberties(de)

1992-02-22

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, due largely to the shame attached to rape in German culture at that time.

Oversand
100%

Oversand(fr)

1981-01-01

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
75%

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege(ar)

2021-05-01

During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) is a film that follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.

The Phoney War
80%

The Phoney War(fr)

2019-08-27

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

Une vie avec Oradour
80%

Une vie avec Oradour(fr)

2011-09-21

Hollywoodgate
83%

Hollywoodgate(fa)

2024-07-19

Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.

Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers
60%

Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers(en)

1951-08-04

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short visits the cities of Casablanca, Rabat, and Marrakesh in Morocco, as well as the city of Algiers in Algeria.

It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive
100%

It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive(ar)

2023-11-04

Bisan Owda, journalist and influencer collaborator of the media AJ+, is at the forefront of reporting by filming with her phone, the daily life of Palestinians to the world since October 7, 2023, the start of the war and devastation from Gaza. Owda's storytelling style and resilience have captured international attention, with his work widely covered by international media. She received an Emmy Award in 2024 for her outstanding coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue
74%

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue(en)

2019-07-25

A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors pushing to revise history in Japan.

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb
82%

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb(en)

2023-06-01

The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people on earth. And yet, with war comes new inventions. New ways of destroying the enemy. New machines to wipe out human life. The advent of nuclear weapons not only brought an end to the largest conflict in history, but also ushered in an atomic age and a defining era of "big science". However, with the world now gripped by nuclear weapons, we exist constantly on the edge of mankind's total destruction.

143 Sahara Street
70%

143 Sahara Street(fr)

2021-06-16

Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived as a "literary fantasy", suddenly takes on an unsuspected human depth in this environment naturally hostile to man. She lends herself to the film project as she welcomes her clients, with an economy of gestures and words, an impression reinforced by the mystery that surrounds her and the rare elements of her biography which suggest that she is not from the region, that she left the fertile north of Algeria to settle in the desert where she lives with a dog and a cat.

Color-Blind
40%

Color-Blind(fr)

2019-08-14

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial legacy of a post-postcolonial present.

39/45 : Amours interdites
70%

39/45 : Amours interdites(fr)

2020-05-26

Belgique nazie
85%

Belgique nazie(fr)

2021-12-10

Mengele, the hunt for a Nazi criminal
80%

Mengele, the hunt for a Nazi criminal(fr)

2017-06-18

He was one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, infamous for his assassination attempts on twins. But at the end of World War II, he simply disappeared...

Ancient Algiers
0%

Ancient Algiers(ar)

2024-08-22

In the heart of the historic Casbah of Algiers, buzzing with life, we follow a day in the life of Mousaab, a passionate Algerian teenager navigating his challenges while his love for his local football club runs deep.

Amour de vivre
55%

Amour de vivre(fr)

2010-05-01

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.

Spirit of Hiroshima
0%

Spirit of Hiroshima(en)

1996-01-01

Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable testimonies to reflect on how these people continue to overcome the atomic bombing of 1945.

Gaza Fights for Freedom
77%

Gaza Fights for Freedom(en)

2019-06-20

Gaza Fights for Freedom depicts the ongoing Great March of Return protests in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine, that began in 2018.

Einstein and the Bomb
61%

Einstein and the Bomb(en)

2024-02-16

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.