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Tahia Ya Didou !

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8.3/10 • 3

1971-01-021h 17m

Comedy

Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director’s native city. The camera travels freely, through the port, market, streets and cafés, capturing everyday people, some of whom recur frequently enough to seem like protagonists. The nominal plotline follows a French tourist couple’s leisurely visit to the city, the man having previously served in the army during the Algerian war. As they walk around, his comments betray his mindset’s racist colonial prejudices, while his wife reiterates asinine clichés. Their unhurried wandering is interrupted when he comes across a blind man and realises that he tortured him during his army service. The film is punctuated with punchy sequences that show a poet named Momo delivering verse as an elegy for Algiers.

Directors
Mohamed Zinet
Writters
Mohamed Zinet

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  1. Mohamed Zinet

    Mohamed Zinet

    Hassan

  2. Himoud Brahimi

    Himoud Brahimi

    Momo, the poet

  3. Suzie Nacer

    Suzie Nacer

    The French Woman

  4. Georges Arnaud

    Georges Arnaud

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Status
Released
Original Language
Arabic
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
africa1970salgiers, algeriaalgeriaarabmediterranean seaarab culturemaghrebdjazairberbere culturealgerian societybeautiful algeria