Movies: Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir

  • 1966
    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers (1966)

    The Battle of Algiers

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    Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 19...

    The Battle of Algiers
  • 1975
    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire

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    A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow proces...

    Chronicle of the Years of Fire
  • 1987
    Cry of Stone

    Cry of Stone (1987)

    Cry of Stone

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    Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of boyish wisdom inherited from his deceased grandfather.....

    Cry of Stone
  • 1985
    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows (1985)

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows

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    A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema annex library. Mr. Rachid, disappointed and exasperated by his sad life, faced with an inspector who...

    The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows
  • 1975
    Les Enfants de Novembre

    Les Enfants de Novembre (1975)

    Les Enfants de Novembre

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    In the streets of the Casbah of Algiers, an FLN fighter pursued by the colonial police hands over confidential documents to Mourad, an Algerian child shouting newspapers who must at all costs pass them on to the resistance. But the police are on thei...

    Les Enfants de Novembre
  • 1971
    Patrol in the East

    Patrol in the East (1971)

    Patrol in the East

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    The film traces the story of a patrol of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN), whose mission is to transport a prisoner French soldier to the Tunisian border. Through the march of this group of guerrillas we witness the spirit of sacrifice and...

    Patrol in the East
  • 1967
    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures (1967)

    The Winds of the Aures

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    Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swi...

    The Winds of the Aures
  • 2016
    Sharia

    Sharia (2016)

    Sharia

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    Sofiane is an Arab immigrant who lives in the US away from religion, customs, and traditions of his native land. His life is turned upside down as his American wife; Heather, starts making drastic changes in her spiritual beliefs and lifestyle. Altho...

    Sharia
  • 1977
    The Uprooted

    The Uprooted (1977)

    The Uprooted

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    In 1880, in colonized Algeria, it was decided that the Algerian peasants of the Ouarsenis mountains would see their lands dispossessed in favor of the French colonists. Two methods were used to achieve this, either by sheer force or by a ploy forcing...

    The Uprooted
  • 1979
    The Adventures of a Hero

    The Adventures of a Hero (1979)

    The Adventures of a Hero

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    In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor. A man decides one day to put the mark of the "hero" on his newborn son and the whole tribe celebrates the arrival of this eag...

    The Adventures of a Hero
  • 1986
    Last Image

    Last Image (1986)

    Last Image

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    Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ru...

    Last Image