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Les Casablancais

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Les Casablancais
Directed byAbdelkader Lagtaâ
Written byAbdelkader Lagtaâ
Produced byIan Boyd, Freddy Denaës
StarringAbdelazziz Saâdallah, Khadija Assad, Salaheddine Benmoussa
CinematographyMichel La Veaux
Music byRobert Marcel Lepage
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
CountriesMorocco
France
Canada
LanguagesMoroccan Arabic, French

Les Casablancais (English: People of Casablanca, Moroccan Arabic: Bidaoua) is a 1999 drama film directed by Abdelkader Lagtaâ.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It was screened at multiple national film festivals and several international ones, including the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival.[7]

Synopsis

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A polyphonic portrait of the city of Casablanca through the intersecting itineraries of three characters: a bookseller who receives an unexpected correspondence that forces him to question himself deeply, a young teacher whose application for a passport triggers an absurd investigation, and a teenager who, because of a misunderstanding with his fundamentalist teacher, becomes the victim of a manipulation with tragic consequences.[8][9][10]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Barlet, Olivier (1999-05-31). "Les Casablancais". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  2. ^ "Les Casablancais (1999)". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  3. ^ "Africiné - Les Casablancais, de Abdelkader Lagtaâ". Africiné (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  4. ^ Privet, Georges (28 April 1999). "Les Casablancais : Portrait de groupe". Voir.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  5. ^ Carter, Sandra Gayle (2009-08-16). What Moroccan Cinema?: A Historical and Critical Study, 1956D2006. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-3187-9.
  6. ^ Leaman, Oliver (2003-12-16). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-66251-7.
  7. ^ "Les casablancais | People From Casablanca | Die Leute aus Casablanca". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  8. ^ Videau, André (1999). "Las Casablancais, Film marocain d'Abdelkader Lagtaa". Hommes & Migrations. 1221 (1): 116.
  9. ^ Njoku, Raphael Chijioke (2006). Culture and Customs of Morocco. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33289-0.
  10. ^ Armes, Roy (2006). African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34853-1.
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