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La nuit sacrée (1993)
Directed by Nicolas Klotz
Drama · 1h 50m
A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he wants to shave, leave a mustache and take his niece to wife. In the meantime, Ahmed's father is dying and wants to sail to heaven. He calls to Ahmed and calls her a female name Zahra and gives her freedom so that she can go out.
Cast
Amina Annabi
Miguel Bosé
Maïté Nahyr
François Chattot
Farida Rahouadj
Carmen Chaplin
Crew
- Director
- Nicolas Klotz
- Screenplay
- Elisabeth Perceval
- Novel
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Director of Photography
- Carlo Varini
- Editor
- Jean-François Naudon
- Producer
- Leslie Grunberg, Jean-François Lepetit, Jean-Luc Ormières
Details
- Release date
- 1993-06-23
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France, Morocco