Baya's Mountain

Baya's Mountain (1997)

December 3rd, 19971h 56min

Drama
100%

Overview

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.


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