Tahia Ya Didou !

Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)


  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1971-01-02
  • User Rating: 9.5/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Language: العربية
  • Production Company: APC d'Alger
  • Production Country: Algeria
  • Director: Mohamed Zinet
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Summary

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.

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  • Mohamed Zinet

    as Hassan
  • Himoud Brahimi

    as Momo, the poet
  • Suzie Nacer

    as The French Woman
  • Georges Arnaud

    as
Writing Himoud Brahimi Dialogue
Crew Himoud Brahimi Poem
Crew Bruno Muel Cinematography
Directing Mohamed Zinet Director
Sound El Hadj M'hamed El Anka Music
Crew Ali Marok Cinematography
Writing Mohamed Zinet Writer
Sound Antonio Catalano Other
Sound A. Oulhi Sound
Directing Anne Zinet Script Supervisor
Sound Michel Portal Music

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