Baya's Mountain (1997)
La Montagne de Baya
Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins from the enemy tribe that murdered her husband; the gift puts her in conflict with her kinsmen, who want the money to buy back land taken by the enemy in cahoots with French colonials.
- Date of release
- 1997-12-03
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Azzeddine Meddour
Casting
- Djamila Amzal — Baya
- Abderrhamane Debiane — Djendel
- Ali Ighil Ali — Le vieux Belaïd
- Ouardia Kessi — La vieille Aldja
- Kamal Abderrahmane — Saïd
- Youcef Meziani — Le Bachagha
- Nora Ait Abdelmalek — Taos
- Meziane Chabi — Le petit Meziane
- Fadil Hamla — Le grand Meziane
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