''Chronicle of the Years of Fire'' ( ar, وقائع سنين الجمر, Waqāʾiʿu sinīna l-jamri; french: Chronique des Années de Braise; these names both mean "Chronicle of the Years of
Ember
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s") is a 1975
Algerian drama
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historical film
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directed by
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the
Algerian War of Independence
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
as seen through the eyes of a peasant.
The film won the ''
Palme d'Or
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'' prize at the
1975 Cannes Film Festival
The 28th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 May 1975. The Palme d'Or went to the '' Chronique des Années de Braise'' by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. In 1975, a new section, "Les Yeux fertiles", which was non-competitive, was introduced. This ...
.
It was also selected as the Algerian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
48th Academy Awards
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, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Cast
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Yorgo Voyagis
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Career as an actor
Voyagis' film debut was in Michael Cacoyannis's ''Zorba the Greek'' (1964). He reappeared three years later in ...
- Ahmed
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina - Le conteur fou
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Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir - Sage du village
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Leila Shenna - La femme
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Cheikh Nourredine - L'ami
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François Maistre - Le contremaître de la carrière
See also
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*
List of Algerian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
* ''
The Battle of Algiers
ar, Maʿrakat al-Jazāʾir
, director = Gillo Pontecorvo
, producer = Antonio MusuSaadi Yacef
, writer = Franco Solinas
, story = Franco SolinasGillo Pontecorvo
, starring = Jean MartinSaadi YacefBrahim H ...
'', 1966 classic docudrama on Algerian War
* ''
Lost Command'', a commercial film on the Algerian War of Independence and Indochine War
* ''
Lion of the Desert
''Lion of the Desert'' is a 1980 epic historical war film about the Second Italo-Senussi War, starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the ''Regio Esercito'' ( Royal Italian Army) and Oliver Reed as ...
'', a similar movie about
Omar Mukhtar's Libyan resistance against Italian occupation
References
External links
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1975 films
Palme d'Or winners
1970s Arabic-language films
1970s French-language films
Algerian drama films
War epic films
Algerian War films
1970s war drama films
Films directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1975 drama films
1975 multilingual films
Algerian multilingual films