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]
| Les Casablancais | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Abdelkader Lagtaâ |
| Written by | Abdelkader Lagtaâ |
| Produced by | Ian Boyd, Freddy Denaës |
| Starring | Abdelazziz Saâdallah, Khadija Assad, Salaheddine Benmoussa |
| Cinematography | Michel La Veaux |
| Music by | Robert Marcel Lepage |
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| Countries | Morocco France Canada |
| Languages | Moroccan Arabic, French |
Synopsis
editA 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
edit- Abdelaziz Saâdallah
- Khadija Assad
- Karina Aktouf
- Salaheddine Benmoussa
- Nourredine Bikr
- Omar Sayed
- Saïda Baadi
- Mohamed Benbrahim
- Amine Kably
References
edit- ^ Barlet, Olivier (1999-05-31). "Les Casablancais". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ "Les Casablancais (1999)". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ "Africiné - Les Casablancais, de Abdelkader Lagtaâ". Africiné (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Privet, Georges (28 April 1999). "Les Casablancais : Portrait de groupe". Voir.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Carter, Sandra Gayle (2009-08-16). What Moroccan Cinema?: A Historical and Critical Study, 1956D2006. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-3187-9.
- ^ Leaman, Oliver (2003-12-16). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-66251-7.
- ^ "Les casablancais | People From Casablanca | Die Leute aus Casablanca". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Videau, André (1999). "Las Casablancais, Film marocain d'Abdelkader Lagtaa". Hommes & Migrations. 1221 (1): 116.
- ^ Njoku, Raphael Chijioke (2006). Culture and Customs of Morocco. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33289-0.
- ^ Armes, Roy (2006). African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34853-1.
