Film guide 1966
The Winds of the Aurès
A mother’s search carries the history of war into the intimate world of a rural family.
- Original title
- Le Vent des Aurès
- Director
- Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina
- Year
- 1966
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Story, without spoilers
During the Algerian war, Lakhdar divides his time between farm work and supplying independence fighters in the mountains. His arrest sends his mother away from their village. She travels between detention camps, confronting uncertainty and military barriers as she searches for her missing son.
Context & recognition
Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina builds the drama around family ties and the disruption of rural life. The black-and-white film received the Prize for the First Work at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
Main characters & cast
The mother
Keltoum
A village woman determined to find her son.
Lakhdar
Mohamed Chouikh
Her son, who supplies the resistance fighters.
The father
Hassan El-Hassani
Lakhdar’s father, part of the farming household.
