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Moroccan Chronicles

Original title: Chroniques marocaines
Year: 1999
Running time: 68 min.
Country: Morocco
Director: Moumen Smihi
Screenwriter: Moumen Smihi
Cast: Aïcha Mahmah, Tarik Jamil, Miloud Habachi, Soumaya Akaaboune, Ahmed S. Soussi, Mohamed Timoud
Music: Bachir Mounir
Cinematography: Hélène Delale
Producer: Co-production Morocco-France;
Artcam International, CNC, La Fémis
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the first, Smihi re-stages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists. In the second, two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welles’s Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love. And in the third, set in Smihi’s home town of Tangier, an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster: the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa.

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Moroccan Chronicles

1999

Moumen Smihi