Chronicle of the Years of Fire

Burning with passion, poetry, and a nation’s fervent spirit of resistance, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s stirring revolutionary epic vividly dramatizes the pivotal decades leading up to Algeria’s War of Independence through the harrowing saga of Ahmed (Yorgo Voyagis), a proud farmer seeking a dignified life, whose experience of brutal oppression and systemic injustice leads him, like so many others, to take a stand against the seemingly indomitable might of French colonialism. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, this awe-inspiring landmark of Arab cinema is an at once personal and expansive vision of a country awakening from despair to build an unbreakable movement of liberation.

Starring Yorgo Voyagis, Larbi Zekkal, Cheikh Nourredine, Hassaon El-Hassani, Leila Shenna, Sid Ali Kouiret, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina, Tarek Lakhdar-Hamina, Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina