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The Nomads, is a 1976 Algerian movie, directed by Sid Ali Mazif, and starring Mohamed Chouikh, Hassan El-Hassani, Ahmed Kada. with a runtime of 100 minutes.
The Nomads is an Algerian drama-documentary directed by Sid Ali Mazif, examining a pivotal moment of rupture in a pastoral nomadic community of over a million inhabitants. When the patriarch of a Bedouin family dies, his three sons each chart a different course: one heads to the city, another tries to preserve his ancestors' evolving way of life, and a third joins one of the new agricultural cooperatives emerging from Algeria's agrarian revolution. The film is a richly layered portrait of a traditional society fragmenting under the pressure of modernization, economic concentration, and political transformation — essential viewing for fans of Algerian cinema and social history.
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