Film · Drama
Baya's Mountain (1997)
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.
- Director
- Azzeddine Meddour
- Writers
- Jean-Pierre Lledo, Azzeddine Meddour
- Country
- Algeria
- Language
- Arabic
- Release date
- December 3, 1997
- Original title
- La Montagne de Baya
Cast
Djamila AmzalBaya- Abderrhamane DebianeDjendel
- Ali Ighil AliLe vieux Belaïd
- Ouardia KessiLa vieille Aldja
- Kamal AbderrahmaneSaïd
Youcef MezianiLe Bachagha- Nora Ait AbdelmalekTaos
- Meziane ChabiLe petit Meziane
- Fadil HamlaLe grand Meziane
