Fadila

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Fadila (1960)

Directed by Francis Mischkind

Romance, Family · 40m

Fadila is a short film shot in the Casbah of Algiers during the Algerian War by a young French army conscript with the young Fadila Tizraoui and Djamel Bendeddouche who would become filmmakers after independence. The film depicts the friendship of two children in the streets of the Casbah and their encounter one day in December with Santa Claus... Fadila won the Grand Prix du Cinéma at the 1959 Children's Fair, was awarded a prize by the National Center for Cinematography (CNC) and was successfully exported.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Francis Mischkind
Writer
Francis Mischkind
Editor
Marcel Teulade

Details

Release date
1960-01-01
Runtime
40m
Genres
Romance, Family
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
Arabic, French
Countries
France, Algeria