CinemaOSMovie · 1971 · 1h 17m

Tahia Ya Didou !

80%(5)IMDbComedy

Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director’s native city. The camera travels freely, through the port, market, streets and cafés, capturing everyday people, some of whom recur frequently enough to seem like protagonists. The nominal plotline follows a French tourist couple’s leisurely visit to the city, the man having previously served in the army during the Algerian war. As they walk around, his comments betray his mindset’s racist colonial prejudices, while his wife reiterates asinine clichés. Their unhurried wandering is interrupted when he comes across a blind man and realises that he tortured him during his army service. The film is punctuated with punchy sequences that show a poet named Momo delivering verse as an elegy for Algiers.

Directed byMohamed Zinet

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 17m
Language
AR
Released
January 2, 1971
Studios
APC d'Alger

Featuring

Cast & crew

4 credited
Starring
Mohamed Zinet

Mohamed Zinet

Hassan

Himoud Brahimi

Himoud Brahimi

Momo, the poet

Suzie Nacer

The French Woman

Georges Arnaud

Creative team
Directed by
Mohamed Zinet
Mohamed Zinet
Written by
Mohamed Zinet
Mohamed Zinet

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