Rose of the Desert

  • Rose Des Sables
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title : Louss, Warda Al-Rimal
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1989
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)
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An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; They try, together, to reconstitute a family unit that the war has destroyed. The family is the dream of the idyllic times of childhood, of times when parents took all the responsibilities. Moussa is perfectly independent, although he has no arms, he nevertheless loves being helped by his sister. Zineb, for her part, does not dare to face the new world that a marriage would constitute. Life passes punctuated by the same gestures. Zineb takes the bus to go to work at the date packaging factory. Moussa goes to see the schoolmaster, draws or dreams of Mériem, the woman he loves. A rose secretly grows in the sand, which Moussa waters every day.



Original title (Algeria): زهرة الرمال (Louss, Warda Al-Rimal)
Title in French Rose Des Sables
Country, year: Algeria, 1h50, 1988, Fiction.
Language: Arabic Subtitled in French.

Director: Mohamed Rachid Benhadj
Screenplay: Mohamed Rachid Benhadj, Maria-Cristina Paterlini
Image: Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina, Mustapha Belmihoub
Sound: Kamal Mekesser, René Levert
Editing: Franca Marangelo, Mohamed Rachid Benhadj
Music: Maria Cristina Paterlini
Production: Harhoura and CAAIC
Distribution: The Singular Films
Cast: Boubakeur Belaroussi, Dalila Helilou, Atmane Ariouet, Sirat Boumediène, Nawal Zaatar, Karima Hadjar...

Honors / Festivals / Prizes / Awards: 1989, Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival Critics' Prize for Mohamed Rachid BENHADJ 1990, Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival Golden Dolphin for Mohamed Rachid BENHADJ, CANNES 1989 - Critics' Week, FRIBORG 1992, GENEVA - Black Movie 95, MILAN 1996.


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