Wind of Aurès (Arab: ريحالاوراس Rih will el-Aouras ) is an Algerian film of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, presented to the public in 1966.

With the Wind of Aurès, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina signed a realistic work with the accents epic crossing by the dumb interpretation of Keltoum. the film counts among traditional Algerian cinematography.

Synopsis

In a Algeria colonized by the France, at the fine bottom of the countryside (with the Aurès), a mother has hopelessly sought her son raid by the French Army and imprisoned for several weeks in a camp With courage, it defies the French soldiers to find it, energy from one camp to another, its obstinacy leads it to find the camp in which his/her son is, and to return day there after day, indifferent to the threats and the intimidations of the French soldiers, animated by purest and most extremely of the human feelings: love of a mother.

Data sheet

• Title: Wind of Aurès

• original Title: Rih Al will awras
• Réalisation: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
• Scenario: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina and Tewfik Farès
• Producing: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
• Production: Algeria
• Director of the photography:
• Original music:
• Assembly:
• Decorations:
• Left: 1966
• Country of origin: Algeria
• Kind: fiction
• Format:
• Color:
• Lasted: 95 minutes

Distribution

• Keltoum

• Mohamed Chouikh
• Omar Tayane
• Hassan el-Hassani
• Mustapha Kateb
• Tania Timgad

Reward

• Price of the First work to the Cannes festival 1967.