Moroccan Chronicles backdrop
Moroccan Chronicles poster
Trailer
Moroccan Chronicles
5.8
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1h 12m
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1999
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Released
Overview
In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the first, Smihi re-stages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists. In the second, two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welles’s Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love. And in the third, set in Smihi’s home town of Tangier, an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster: the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa.

Cast
Aïcha Mahmah poster
Aïcha Mahmah
Tarik Jamil poster
Tarik Jamil
Miloud Habachi poster
Miloud Habachi
Soumaya Akaaboune poster
Soumaya Akaaboune
Ahmed S. Soussi poster
Ahmed S. Soussi
Mohamed Timoud poster
Mohamed Timoud

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