Baya's Mountain

Plot Summary

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins from the enemy tribe that murdered her husband; the gift puts her in conflict with her kinsmen, who want the money to buy back land taken by the enemy in cahoots with French colonials.

Top Cast

Djamila Amzal Baya

Abderrhamane Debiane Djendel

Ali Ighil Ali Le vieux Belaïd

Ouardia Kessi La vieille Aldja

Kamal Abderrahmane Saïd