Lumières (1989)

10.0/10 110 min Comedy Drama

Overview

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist giving him a censored history of cinema and Algeria, which helps him to change, and to accept his own fantasies, embodied by Marilyn Monroe and the Andalusian.

Cast

Mohamed Fellag

Aziz

Mustapha El Anka

Le Vieux Projectionniste

Yahia Benmabrouk

L'acteur vendeur de fruits

Kaci Tizi Ouzou

René Vautier

L'animateur des Ciné Pops

Doudja Achachi

La Mère

Mustapha Preure

Inspecteur des cinémas

Anne Turolla

Marylin Monroe

Fawzi B. Saichi

Patron Pressing

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