Baya's Mountain (1997)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 56M
Director : Azzeddine Meddour
Writer : Jean-Pierre Lledo, Azzeddine Meddour
Synopsis
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.
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