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Vent des Aurès (Le)

  • Vent des Aurès (Le)
Genre : Social
Type : Fiction
Original title : Rih al-awras
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1967
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)
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The story revolves around an Algerian family destroyed by the war. There are three characters : the father, the mother and their son. The father is killed during a bombardment by the French air force. The son, until then a supplier for the resistant party, is now living a double life : during the day, he attends to domestic work, at night; he travels the mountains in order to give munitions to the resistant members of the Army for the National Liberation. But, one night, he is arrested by the colonial troops. The family home is ransacked by the soldiers. The mother leaves fearlessly from camp to camp, looking for her son. One day, she arrives to a city barricaded by barbed wire and shiny sheet metal. Pushed by maternal instinct, she begins furiously turning in circles in the middle of a great plain to find her son, until one day, after endless days and hours of vain searching... a miracle happens. WIND OF AURES Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1966) First Work Prize at the Cannes Festival 1967. Drama Actors : Keltoum, Mohammed Chouikh, Hassan El Hassani, Mustapha Kateb. Screenwritten : M. Lakhdar Hamina, Tewfik Farès Picture : M. Lakhdar Hamina, Abdelkader Bouziane Music : Philippe Arthuys Running time : 90 minutes Procedure : Black & white Version : Original subtitled French, Original subtitled english.

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