CinemaOSMovie · 2021 · 1h 30m

143 Sahara Street

70%(11)IMDbDocumentary

Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived as a "literary fantasy", suddenly takes on an unsuspected human depth in this environment naturally hostile to man. She lends herself to the film project as she welcomes her clients, with an economy of gestures and words, an impression reinforced by the mystery that surrounds her and the rare elements of her biography which suggest that she is not from the region, that she left the fertile north of Algeria to settle in the desert where she lives with a dog and a cat.

Directed byHassen Ferhani

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
FR
Released
June 16, 2021
Studios
Allers Retours FilmsCentrale Électrique

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143 Rue Du Désert - Trailer by Hassen Ferhani

143 Rue Du Désert - Trailer by Hassen Ferhani

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3 credited
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Malika

Malika

Self

Chawki Amari

Chawki Amari

Self

Samir Elhakim

Samir Elhakim

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Hassen Ferhani
Hassen Ferhani
Written by
Hassen Ferhani
Hassen Ferhani
Produced by
Olivier Boischot
Narimane Mari

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