Chronicle of the Years of Embers
Alternate title(s): Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Foreign Title: Waqai sanawat al-djamr, Chronique des années de braise
Date: January 01, 1975 to December 31, 1975
Dates Note: 1975
Country of Origin:
Algeria
Place of Origin: Algeria
Languages:
French
,
Arabic
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On:
Additional Info:
Restoration supported by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, created by The Film Foundation, FEPACI, and UNESCO—in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna—to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.
Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as HistoryDescription:
An Algerian farmer rides the tides of his nation's history—from drought to colonial injustices to, finally, the seeds of independence—in Lakhdar-Hamina’s astounding, decades-spanning epic from 1975, the first (and only) African or Arab film to win the Cannes Palme d'Or. "The most magnificent film to ever come from the Third World" (Albert Johnson, SFIFF), this grandiose combination of 1970s African revolutionary fervor, pulpy Bollywood-style melodrama, and muscular Sergio Leone–like Cinemascope cinematography (by Marcello Gatti, The Battle of Algiers) is just as revelatory now. "Here’s cinema as a history painting, as epic as Bertolucci’s 1900" (Mark Cousins).
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