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Hommage au cinéma algérien en célébration du cinquantenaire de l’indépendance LM
Louss or the rose of the sands ( Algeria 1988 )
Color: Fiction, color, 110’
Direction: Rachid Benhadj
Screenplay: Rachid Benhadj & Maria Cristina Paterlini
Director of Photography: Smail Lakdhar Hamina & Mustapha Belmihoub.
Sound: Kamal Mekesser, René Levert
Music: Maria Cristina Paterlini
Editing: Franca Marangelo, Mohamed Rachid Benhadj
Cast: Boubakeur Belaroussi, Dalila Helilou, Atmane Ariouet, Boumedienne Serat, Nawal Zaatar , Karima Hadjar
Production: Centre Algérien pour l’Art et l’Industrie Cinématographique
Synopsis
A young disabled, Moussa, goes to school in an oasis. His sister Zineb must take care of him and protect him. In the desert, Moussa wants to grow a rose tree...
Réalisateur
Born in Algiers, Rachid Benhadj graduated in architecture. After working in the Algerian television, he moved to Rome where he made documentaries and short films and taught at the Cinecitta film school. It is also a painter.
Other films: TOUCHIA - Song of Women of Algiers (1993), The hanging fate tree (1997) MIRKA (2000), THE NAKED BREAD (2005), PERFUMES OF ALGIERS (2012)