Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Cinematic Siblings)
Cinémathèque @Théâtre des Capucins
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Ahdat sanawovach el-djamr/Chronique des années de braise Algérie 1975 | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | vostEN | 177’ | digital | Cast :Yorgo Voyagis, Larbi Zekkal, Cheikh Nourredine, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
► Palme d’or, Cannes 1975
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► 4K Restoration. Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna.
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Spanning the late 1930s to the outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence in 1954, the film unfolds in six chapters, each marking a stage in Algeria’s path toward revolution. At its center is Ahmed, a poor farmer whose life becomes entwined with the growing nationalist movement. What begins as a portrait of modest rural life gradually expands into an epic chronicle of political awakening, capturing how individual grievances coalesce into a collective consciousness and, ultimately, a movement for liberation.
« Here's cinema as a history painting, as epic as Bertolucci's 1900. If our movie memories weren't so Hollywood-skewed, we'd think of it as a classic. » (Mark Cousins)
