Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina was born on 26 February 1934 in M'Sila, into a peasant family, and went to study in France. His father was abducted and killed by the French army during the war. In 1958 he joined the provisional government in Tunis, learned the trade at the Tunisian newsreels, and then the FLN sent him to the film school in Prague. After independence he headed the Office des actualités algériennes and then the public production office, and received at Cannes, in 1967, the prize for best first work for his first feature film. He died on 23 May 2025.

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• CinemaChronicle of the Years of FireChronique des années de braiseMohammed Lakhdar-Hamina · 1975Cinema