Algerian FLN Casbah (Battle of Algiers newsreel register)

Re-render this image in the visual register of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966), which fictionalized the 1954 through 1957 Algerian FLN urban campaign in the Casbah using a newsreel-grade documentary aesthetic so convincing the film opened with a disclaimer that no archival footage was used. Black-and-white 35mm cinematography, high-contrast, period-correct grain structure of pushed Tri-X stock, blocked deep shadows in stone alleyways, blown highlights where Algerian sun hits whitewashed Casbah walls. Camera position: handheld at chest or eye level, slightly unsteady, the angle of a documentary crew who arrived late and shot quickly, not a tripod-locked dramatic frame. Subject treatment: anti-glamorous, ordinary face, ordinary clothing, the FLN cadre indistinguishable from any Casbah resident, no insignia, no theatrical defiance. Setting: dense Casbah architecture (narrow stepped alleys, whitewashed walls, arched doorways, hanging laundry, wrought-iron grilles), the architecture as character, the labyrinth that the French paratroopers cannot map. Light: hard North African sun creating sharp diagonal shadows across walls, occasional pooled interior light from a single window, deep shadows held in arched doorways. Composition: documentary framing, subject not centered, partially obscured by architecture or by other figures in motion, the camera reading the scene rather than directing it. Mood: tactical urgency, the cellular network operating in plain sight, the camera as witness to operations the witness cannot fully understand. Strictly no on-canvas text, no Arabic lettering, no French signage, no FLN flag, no recognizable Algerian state symbols, no signature, no watermark. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.