Movie·1989·1h 50m
Lumières
Country
Algeria
Language
Arabic
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The Story
Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.
Editor
Nouredine Touazi
Themes
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// cast
Cast
Mohamed Fellag
Aziz
Mustapha El Anka
Le Vieux Projectionniste
Yahia Benmabrouk
L'acteur vendeur de fruits
Kaci Tizi Ouzou
René Vautier
L'animateur des Ciné Pops
Doudja Achachi
La Mère
Mustapha Preure
Inspecteur des cinémas
Anne Turolla
Marylin Monroe
Hamou Saadaoui
L'Aveugle
Fawzi B. Saichi
Patron Pressing
Farouk Mezouane
Patron Cinéma La Perle
Merzoug Hamiane
Serveur Café Malakoff
Djamel Touidjine
Syndicaliste
Abderrahmane Cheriti
Chef des Truands
Saïda Nacera Bouzeliffa
L'Andalouse
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