On 14 July 1953, a terrible drama took place in the middle of Paris.
When a demonstration in honour of the French Revolution broke up, the Parisian police charged a procession of Algerian demonstrators. Seven people (6 Algerians and one French) were killed and around 100 demonstrators were injured. A real carnage.
This story is almost unknown. Hardly anyone knows about its existence. As if a page of history had been torn out and thrown away. In France as in Algeria.
This film is the story of a long investigation against amnesia.
A day-to-day investigation, to find witnesses, to make historians talk, to gather information from the newspapers of the time, from archives and other documentation centres in order to reconstruct as well as possible the course of this drama, but also to understand how this state lie worked so well.
Before the last witnesses disappear, it is time for the story of this massacre to be brought out of oblivion.
A film by Daniel Kupferstein
France, 2014, Documentary, 90 mins