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TAIEB LOUHICHI - Tunisia

Synopsis

The last members of an isolated community live in a border camp. Their wheat reserves are running out; their herd is struck down by an unknown disease; the young men go north to the army or abroad. Only the patriarch and his daughter-in-law remain, and she has to go to the capital where the coffin of her dead husband is arriving from abroad.

Film details

Genre : Narrative Feature film
Duration : 90 minutes
Year of production : 1986
Country : Tunisia
Casting : Despina Tomazini - Abdellatif Hamrouni - Helene Catzaraz Mouna Noureddine - Abdelkader Mokdad - Rached Khémis
Screenwriter : Taieb Louhichi
Cinematography : Ramon Suarez
Editor : Moufida Tlatli
Director : TAIEB LOUHICHI






He was a Tunisian director whose short film My Village, A Village Among So Many Others won the Golden Tanit at the 1972 JCC. He wrote and directed films such as The Shadow of the Earth, Layla Ma Raison, Noce de lune, La danse du vent, L’enfant du soleil and La Rumeur de l’eau.