The Winds of the Aures
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The Winds of the Aures is a 1966 Algerian war film
directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival
where it won the award for Best First Work.
War film
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...
directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian film director. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Embers. He is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Arabic cinema.- Biography :...
. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival
1967 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Alessandro Blasetti *Georges Lourau *Sergei Bondarchuk *René Bonnell *Jean-Louis Bory *Miklós Jancsó *Claude Lelouch *Shirley MacLaine...
where it won the award for Best First Work.
Cast
- Keltoum - Mother
- Mohamed ChouikhMohamed ChouikhMohamed Chouikh is an Algerian film-maker.Mohamed Chouikh was born at Mostaganem Algeria on the 3rd of September 1943, where he was to become a stage actor with a troupe which later developed into the Algerian National Theatre. In 1965, he acted in one of Algeria's greatest film productions,...
- Lakhdar - Hassan Hassani - (as Hassan El-Hassani)
- Thania Timgad
- Mustapha Kateb
- Omar Tayare