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Hommage au cinéma algérien en célébration du cinquantenaire de l’indépendance LM

The Mill of Mr. Fabre ( Algeria 1984 )

Color: Fiction, color, 100’

Direction: Ahmed Rachedi

Screenplay: Ahmed Rachedi

Director of Photography: Rachid Merabtine

Sound: Karakeuzain Vartan

Editing: Rachid Mazouza

Cast: Izzat el-Alaïli, Jacques Dufilho, Hassen Mustapha, Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Taha el-Amiri. Hassen el Hassani, Catherine de Seynes.

Production: Office National pour le Commerce et l’Industrie Cinématographique (Algérie)

Synopsis

1963, one year after Independence, nationalizations are going full speed. In a small village, deep inside Algeria, the mayor is distraught. A high level official is coming from the capital and there is obviously nothing for him to...nationalize. Silver Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival 1986

Réalisateur

Born in Algeria, Ahmed Rachdi is one of the pioneers of The Algerian cinema. General Director of ONCIC from 1967 to 1971, he produced and Costa-Gavras and Youssef Chahine. In 1981, he produced for Algerian television the series, Barbed wire, followed by It was the war (1992). His other movies: Dawn of the Damned (1965) Opium and the stick (1969), The Finger in the gear (1974), Ali in the land of mirages (1979), The mill of Mr Fabre (1984) Ben Boulaid (2009).