Cinémathèque: Chronicle of the Years of Embers

2 Rue des Ursulines, 37000 Tours, France

Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina's film "Chronique des années de braise" (Algeria - 1957 - 2h57) Starring Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina, Yorgo Voyagis, Henri Czarniak, Sid Ali Kouiret. Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 1975. Ahmed, a poor shepherd, leaves his village for the city in search of an easier life. There he encounters poverty and injustice. Disgusted by the opulence in which the colonists live, Ahmed ultimately rebels, set against the backdrop of World War II. Epic and highly political, this film presents a chapter of Algerian history, from the French conquest to 1954, the date of the outbrea…