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Ali Zaoua [videorecording] / un film de Nabil Ayouch ; un scâenario de Nathalie Saugeon, Nabil Ayouch ; une coproduction Playtime ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: DV004 | FilmmovementLanguage: Arabic, French Summary language: English Publication details: [United States] : Film Movement : Arab Film Distribution, [2003]Description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1402564589
  • 9781402564581
Other title:
  • Container title: Ali Zaoua, prince of the streets
  • Also known as: Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372
LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00919
Production credits:
  • Photography, Vincent Mathias ; editing, Jean-Robert Thomann ; music, Krishna Levy.
Cast: Moèunèim Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra, Said Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch, Mohamed Majd.Summary: A group of street urchins living in the hard streets of Casablanca lead lives filled with violence, begging, and indifference. Their bond of friendship and family is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head by a rival gang. His friends decide not to report his death to the police, who would have the boy buried in a potter's field. Instead they decide to give him a worthy burial, to bury Ali on the private island he so often dreamed of.Summary: "Architecture of assurance" weaves interviews into the story of a young girl who one afternoon goes exploring in a suburban California neighborhood, where she is utterly convinced that the people she spies on have happier lives than she does.
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 00919 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000030216

DVD.

In Arabic and French with English subtitles.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.

"March 2003"--Disc label.

Moèunèim Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra, Said Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch, Mohamed Majd.

Photography, Vincent Mathias ; editing, Jean-Robert Thomann ; music, Krishna Levy.

A foreign film (Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium).

Special features: Ali Zaoua trailer, biographies of director & actors ; short film The Architecture of reassurance / HKM Films ; Mike Mills (1999, ca. 24 min.).

A group of street urchins living in the hard streets of Casablanca lead lives filled with violence, begging, and indifference. Their bond of friendship and family is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head by a rival gang. His friends decide not to report his death to the police, who would have the boy buried in a potter's field. Instead they decide to give him a worthy burial, to bury Ali on the private island he so often dreamed of.

"Architecture of assurance" weaves interviews into the story of a young girl who one afternoon goes exploring in a suburban California neighborhood, where she is utterly convinced that the people she spies on have happier lives than she does.

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