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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Dies: Algerian Cannes Palme D’Or Winner Was 91
Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina Dies: Algerian Cannes Palme d’Or Winner Was 91
Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, whose 1975 drama Chronicles of the Years of Fire remains Africa’s only Cannes Palme d’Or to this day, has died at the age of 91. Set between the late 1930s and 1954, the movie retells the Algerian War of Independence through the eyes of a peasant farmer, exploring the roots of the movement and depicting the harshness of French colonial rule. In an era in which the film world had yet to start embracing diversity, Lakhdar-Hamina was one of the few African and Arab directors to put in a regular appearance in Cannes from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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