Baya's Mountain
MovieTitle | La Montagne de Baya |
User score | 10 |
Release date | Dec 3, 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Azzeddine Meddour |
Production country | France, Algeria |
Production companies | Imago Films International, Caro-Line Production, Entreprise Nationale de Production Audiovisuelle (ENPA) |
Run time | 116 min. |
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.