Les Accords de Bella [SEP] director
Les Accords de Bella
Les Accords de Bella is a 2007 anthropological documentary film directed by David Constantin. It was selected by the African Film Festival of Cordoba - FCAT.
Synopsis.
Rodrigues Island, lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean, has something particular: There are more than 500 accordions for 35,000 people. Polkas, mazurkas and waltzes are part of the history and mestization of an island forgotten by all for a very long time. Here, the accordion is not a forgotten instrument, quite the contrary
the negotiators of the Evian accords, signed on March 18, 1962 in Evian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie, France) between representatives of France and the GPRA during the Algerian war.
He returned to the front of the stage at independence by becoming deputy of Mostaganem of the Constituent Assembly. He became Minister of the Economy of Ahmed Ben Bella from September 27, 1962 to September 4, 1963. Withdrew from the political world, he died in Geneva after a long illness in 1968.
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