The Winds of the Aures

06/08/1967

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1hr 38min

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Drama

,War

STORY

Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swing, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her mountain home when her only son is kidnapped by French soldiers shortly after her husband's death during a raid. One day, seeing a dead chicken, which she considers a bad omen, she decides to leave home and embarks on a painful journey through the mountains. Accompanied by a couple of chickens, she moves from one detention camp to another in a desperate search for her missing son. The film is inspired by the events experienced by the director's family.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri)
  • Mohamed Chouikh
  • Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir
  • Hassan El-Hassani
  • Mustapha Kateb

    Directors

  • Mohamed Bouamari
  • René Vautier
  • Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
  • Liazid Khodja

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • O.N.C.I.C.

    Production Countries

  • Algeria

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
  • French