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A Prayer for the Absent (1995)
Directed by Hamid Benani
Comedy, Drama · 1h 33m
In Morocco, during the resistance and struggle for independence in the 1950s, Mokhtar, a cultured young man from a middle-class family in Fez, is the unwitting cause of Yamna's downfall, and she must pay a high price to regain her dignity and freedom.
Cast
Saadia Azgoun
Hamid Basket
Crew
- Director
- Hamid Benani
- Writer
- Hamid Benani, Mohamed Kaghat, Mohamed Tazi
- Director of Photography
- Girolamo La Rosa, Tonino Macoppi
- Original Music Composer
- Olivier Debard
- Editor
- Françoise Collin, Natalie Perrey
Details
- Original title
- La prière de l'absent
- Release date
- 1995-01-02
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- France, Morocco
- Production
- Les Films du Phoenix, Les Lumières de la Ville