The family of Mohammed Lakhdar Hamina, the first Arab and African director to receive the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, announced his passing on Friday.
The documentary’s historical drama “Chronicle of the Years of Fire,” about the Algerian War of Independence, won the 1975 Nobel Prize.
His children claimed he passed away at his Algiers home.
Hamina, who was the oldest person to receive the Palme d’Or, competed four times at the French Riviera festival.
The Winds of the Aures, his 1967 film, received the Best First Work award.
His most well-known work, which spans six chapters from 1939 to 1954 and culminates in the uprising against French colonization, chronicles Algeria’s struggle for independence.
Hamina was the only child of modest peasants from the high plains and was born on February 26, 1934, in M’sila, northeast of Algeria, in the mountainous Aures region.
He attended agricultural school before moving on to Antibes, a town in southern France, where he met his future wife.
The couple euthanized four sons at once.
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His father was tortured, kidnapped, and killed by the French army during the Algerian War. In Tunis, he resurrected after being called up in 1958 and joining the Algerian resistance.
Source: Channels TV
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