Two Lives for Algeria and All the Wretched of the Earth is a documentary by Sandrine-Malika Charlemagne and Jean Asselmeyer, released in 2025.
In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS (French Socialist Front), arrived from Algeria. Of Jewish faith, he of Arabic mother tongue, they formed a fighting couple, who began their struggle for Algerian independence, and who still share an unwavering faith in humanity.
They delight in recounting the participation of Algerian Jews in the Second World War and the struggle for Algerian independence. They provide us with previously unpublished information on the public and clandestine struggles of the Algerian Communist Party before and after independence, and on the repression of activists who, like William and Gilberte Sportisse, were tortured and imprisoned after Colonel Boumédiène's rise to power.
The film is an ode to understanding between people of different origins or cultures and a tribute to a couple whose youthful character and enthusiasm still astonish.