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Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)

ALL 01/02/1971 (ar) Comedy 77 Min
  • Release
    01/02/1971
  • Production
    APC d'Alger
  • Rotten tomato
    95%
  • Original title
    Tahia Ya Didou !
  • Original language
    ar
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Mohamed Zinet

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Mohamed Zinet

    Hassan

  2. Himoud Brahimi

    Momo, Le poète

  3. Suzie Nacer

    The French Woman

  4. Georges Arnaud

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 4 , Crews : 11

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Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971) 77 Min

ALL 01/02/1971 (ar)
Comedy
  • Release 01/02/1971
  • Production
    APC d'Alger
  • Original title Tahia Ya Didou !
  • ar
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Mohamed Zinet

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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