At the beginning of the 20th century, the villagers of Kabylia were dispossessed of their land..... A group settles on an arid mountain. The daughter of their spiritual guide, Baya, loses her husband and then refuses to give the peasants the scholarship she receives as a "prize for bloodshed"..... In the mountains of Kabylia at the beginning of the 20th century. The Berber villagers were dispossessed of their land and chased by the French. Some of them managed to gain an arid mountain which became their place of exile. Baya, daughter of the community's spiritual guide, witnesses the murder of her husband by her lifelong rival, Said, the son of Bach-agha. This one gives her a purse of golden louis. Baya refuses to give the peasants this sum which would nevertheless enable them to pay the war tax and to recover their lands. She is isolated in the middle of her own people, torn between her secret love for Djendel, the warrior-poet who gave them refuge, and the fate of her tribe.

STARRING
Djamila AMZAL, Abderrahmane DEBIANE, Ali IGHIL ALI, Ouardia KESSI, Kamal ABDERRAHMANE, Youcef MEZIANI, Nora AÏT ABDELMALEK, Meziane CHABI, Fodil HAMLA, Mohand Oussalem AÏT ALI, Dahmane AIDROUS, Belaïd BELKACEM, Maek DJEZZAR, Ramdane IDIR, Rezak BELHADJ, Ali BOUABDELLAH, Akli TIKOBAINE, Hamid ROBAINE, Lynda HAMRIOUI, Hayet TADJER, Samira ABTOUT

a film by Azzedine MEDDOUR

Algeria / France, 1997, Feature Film, 1h47

Running time: 1h47

DIRECTOR: Azzedine Meddour
Script : Azzedine Meddour and Jean-Pierre Lledo
Image: Bachir SELAMI
Music: Amine KOUIDER, Djouhra ABOUDA


Production: Imago
Coproductions: Caro-Line, ENTV and ENPA

Distribution: Caro-Line
National release date: 12/03/1997
Distributor France: Caro-Line Distribution (programming province 01 40 25 00 52)