Documentary film 'Les balles du 14 juillet 1953' screened in Algiers

The documentary film "Les balles du 14 juillet 1953 (Balls of July 14, 1953) directed by French Daniel Kupferstein on an obscured police repression of a popular protest in Paris in 1953, was screened Thursday night at Mohamed Zinet movie theatre in Algiers.
The documentary, lasting 85 minutes, reconstructs the testimonies of historians and participants in the event, which took place in the heart of Paris, was attended by Algerian militants from the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD).
The demonstration was brutally suppressed by the Paris police, killing seven people, six Algerian and French unionist, in addition to forty wounded.
In the form of inquiry, this film unearths a history of over 60 years and obscured to date by the French authorities, confronts the memories of French trade unionists, Algerian militants from the MTLD and the two police officers who opened fire on demonstrators.