Baya's Mountain [La Montagne de Baya]

Release Year
1997
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama
Directed By
Azzeddine Meddour
Baya's Mountain

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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