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Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories

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Original title

44 ou les récits de la nuit

Year

1985

Running time

110 min.

Country

Morocco

Director

Moumen Smihi

Screenwriter

Moumen Smihi, Mohamed Bennis

Cast

Music

Guido Baggiani, Ben Yarmolinsky

Cinematography

Abdelkrim Derkaoui, Pierre Lhomme

Producer

Co-production Morocco-France;

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Shot in exceptionally beautiful widescreen images by Pierre Lhomme, 44, or Tales of the Night presents a fresco of Morocco’s 44 years of colonization as a protectorate of France. With the sweep of Miklos Jansco’s historical films and a mise-en-scène that owes much to Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), 44 tries to capture the sumptuousness and misery of a religious family from Fes and an impoverished family in Chaouen, within a society fighting for its independence. Smihi draws equally on the traditions of the Arabian Nights tales and the picaresque narratives of James Joyce in order to present multiple points of view on a complex and mobile national history.

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Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories

1985

Moumen Smihi