Amis d'hier (Les)

  • Amis d'hier (Les)
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1997
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)

With: MIFTAH, Mohamed ; SKALI, Hassan ; AYOUCH, Amal ; TURKI, Rim ; AKRIOU, Samia
Director and production: BENJELLOUN, Hassan
Script: BEN JELLOUN, Hassan ; HABIBI, A.
DOP Camera: LEBIGRE, Thierry
Sound designers: AYASSE, Jérôme ; ALBI, Stéphane
Music: MEGRI, Younès
Editing: BENALLAL, Rachid
 
In an old quarter in the medina, an old French veteran, Al Asqri, lives a simple life with his family. His daughter, Samira, works so that his brother Ali, a diabetic, can access his treatment. She is a reader for a blind man who tells her his story. He is a former politician who had been wrongly compromised. When the Moroccan enlisted to fight against the German, he was dismissed. As a punition, he burnt his own eyes. In Samira's description of her father, he seems to recognise his old friend...

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