He died from the age of 95 from Muhammad Lakhdar-Hamina, the only Algerian filmmaker who received the Golden Palm

There are sometimes disturbing circumstances competitions. On Friday, May 23, the Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to Muhammad Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian filmmaker, and only African winner Palme d’Or, which he won in 1975 for his extraordinary film, Broise Years, which is represented as a restorative version. The director died the same day at a cheerful age of 95.

“The voice of his country for 40 years”

Director’s family in a press release said he “Turn off Algeria’s house at the age of eighty -five, resulting in an invaluable cinematic heritage.”Salute “His unique vision that marked the history of cinema”. Director who was able to compose a “The real cultural bridge between the South and the West, thus becoming the voice of the Third World and its country for almost forty years.”

The President of Algeria, Abdadjid Tbbune, sent a message to the family. “As long as he was a global creative director who left an indefinable mark in the history of world cinema, he was a decent Mujaheden, who contributed to the liberation of his country with pictures and scenes that made mankind known as the heroism of the liberation revolution.” He wrote.

Born in M’Sila Aurès (located northeast of Algeria), Muhammad Lakhdar-Hamina was the son of modest peasants. After the School of Agriculture, he studied in antibies in France. During the Algerian war, his father was removed, tortured and killed by the French army. He was called in 1958, but joined Algeria’s resistance to Tunisia.

A self -proclaimed director

Self-taught, Muhammad Lakhdar-Hamina learned about the cinema. After several short films, he began his career as a director in 1964 with a documentary film, But one day of November. In 1966, despite the fact that the Algerian War ended very recently, he signed the first fictional fantasy, the wind of Aurès, which received the prize for the first work at the Cannes Festival. In 1975 it was a supreme reward for his chronicle, which for years for the years of Embers. The struggle for Algeria’s independence is in the center of this historic fresco, which tells the story of six paintings, from 1939 to 1954, the birth of the nation.

He was one of the rare African and Arab directors who contributed four times to the Cannes Film Festival and before May 23, before his death, Palme d’Or dean is still alive.