Baya's Mountain

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.

Cast

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