FILM DIRECTOR

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

1934 - Today

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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Arabic: محمد الأخضر حمينة; born in M'sila in 1934) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival and became the first Arab and African film to win the award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina has received more than 42,420 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is the 882nd most popular film director (up from 937th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 109th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Algerian Film Director.

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Over the past year Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina has had the most page views in the with 8,373 views, followed by English (5,582), and Arabic (4,350). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (84.03%), Indonesian (58.70%), and Egyptian Arabic (55.70%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina ranks 882 out of 2,041. Before him are Ennio de Concini, Elia Suleiman, Martin McDonagh, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Alex Proyas, and Anthony Harvey. After him are Mitchell Leisen, David Cherkassky, Bob Gale, Mikael Håfström, Jean Grémillon, and Régis Wargnier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina ranks 295. Before him are Lester R. Brown, Sugathakumari, Anne Haney, Piet Dankert, Claudio Scimone, and John Keegan. After him are Galina Bystrova, Stanley G. Payne, Settela Steinbach, Hamit Kaplan, Joanna Moore, and Anna Kashfi.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina ranks 110 out of 213. Before him are Biyouna (1952), Ali Benflis (1944), Jean-Pierre Bacri (1951), Boualem Sansal (1949), Solveig Dommartin (1961), and Rachid Mekhloufi (1936). After him are Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (1927), Kad Merad (1964), Mustapha Dahleb (1952), Lounès Matoub (1956), Islam Slimani (1988), and Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani (1927).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Algeria

Among film directors born in Algeria, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina ranks 3. Before him are Tony Gatlif (1948), and Thelma Schoonmaker (1940). After him are Kad Merad (1964).

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Filmography

The Winds of the Aures
Director
This black-and-white film – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – presents one of the most readily apparent, though subtle, transformations of the daily life of the people of Algeria brought about by the ordeal of French occupation and the war of liberation. With military repression in full force, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her house in the mountains when her only son is taken away by French soldiers soon after her husband is killed in a raid. One day, on seeing a dead chicken, which she considers a bad omen, she decides to leave home, and sets off on a tiring journey through the mountains. With a pair of chickens in tow, she moves from one detention camp to the next in a desperate search for her missing son. The film was inspired by events experienced by the family of its director.
Jun 8o 19676.6 / 10
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Director
Cannes Film Festival, 1975, Chronicle of the Burning Years by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina receives the Palme d'Or. This is a first for an African film. A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this "Red All Saints' Day" of November 1, 54. Composed of six chapters, the film paints the merciless picture of political and warrior of colonial Algeria. At its center, Ahmed gradually awakens to political awareness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, symbol of the new Algeria, and that of Miloud, half-mad haranguer, half-prophet, incarnation of Popular memory of the revolt, the liberation of Algeria and its people.
Nov 26o 19756.2 / 10
Hassan Terro
Director
While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly offers hospitality to a mujahid actively sought by the army. French. A series of events and misunderstandings quickly catapult him to the forefront, presenting him under the pseudonym “Hassan Terro”, a great fictitious terrorist who would have sworn the doom of the French army...
Jan 2o 19679 / 10