HURLEMENT

OMAR KHLIFI - Tunisia

Synopsis

In a village somewhere, at some unspecified time, a temporary guest is told about two girls by their reclusive mother. One, Saadia, fought against her rapist, who died; the village men’s council decided she had been provocative and sentenced her to death. The other must marry a man chosen by her father.

Film details

Genre : Narrative Feature film
Duration : 100 minutes
Year of production : 1974
Country : Tunisia
Casting : Hassiba Rochdi - Salwa Mohamed - Zohra Faiza Ahmed Zaibi - Habib Chaari
Screenwriter : Omar KHLIFI
Cinematography : Ezzeddine BEN AMMAR
Editor : Fawzia JOULAK
Director : OMAR KHLIFI






Born in 1934 in Soliman, self-taught, he has since the 1960s produced and directed with his association Essor par le Théâtre et le Cinéma and then with his company Les Films Omar Khlifi several short, mid-length and feature films. In 1966 he directed the first Tunisian feature fiction, El Fajr (Dawn).