Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1974), heoi, ko te mahi tino nui a Lakhdar-Hamina. I te tau 1975, i rongonui ia i te ao katoa i te wa i whakawhiwhia ai te kiriata ki te Golden Palm i Cannes. Ko te kiriata, e tuku ana i tētahi tirohanga whaiaro o te
Ko te hurihanga o Algeria, e whai ana i te whanaketanga o te nekehanga hurihuri mai i te 1939 tae noa ki te timatanga o te 1954 whakaoho ki nga French.