Year of production : 1983 Format : Feature Running time : 80 (in minutes)
Two deaf-mutes, a girl and a boy, meet near an oil exploitation base located somewhere in the third world. She, an American, follows her father on his travels around the world wherever new torches grow. He, a local boy, lives with his two sisters in a dilapidated farmhouse that his father has abandoned in favor of a small-scale chicken farm. Between them a sympathy is established that all kinds of conditions and predispositions will strengthen and develop in margin of the deep surrounding misery that takes the aspects of an illusory, prosperity, of a doubtful cultural exchange (sophisticated household appliances against traditional dresses and jewels). This world, hard and artificial in its disorder and contradictions, cuts the balance of a brief encounter. The departure of the father towards new building sites, new torchères comes to break this meeting.
starring / avec Boumediène BELASRI, Carine MATTYS, Mohamed ARBOUZ, Allan GILL
a film by / un film de Brahim TSAKI
Algeria, 1983, Feature narrative, 1h 20m, 35 mm, drama
TITLES / TITRES Original Title (Arabic) / Titre Original (Arabe) : Hikaya liqa (French title) / France (Titre français) : Histoire d'une rencontre World-wide (English title) / Monde (titre anglais) : Tale of an Encounter Turkey (Turkish title) / Turquie (titre turc) : Bir Karşılaşmanın Öyküsü Brazil (Portuguese Title) / Brésil (Titre portugais) : História de um Reencontro
Country / Pays : Algeria / Algérie Format / Format : 35 mm Process / Procédé : Eastmancolor Duration / Durée : 1h 20m (80 mins) Year / Année : 1983 Themes: Youth, Teenage, Love, Friendship, Jeunesse, Adolescence, Amour, Amitié
Director / Réalisateur : Brahim TSAKI Screenwriters / Scénario : Brahim TSAKI (& Yamina Kessar ??) Musique : Safy BOUTTELA Cinematographer / Image : Allel Yahiaoui Sound / Son : Rachid Bouafia Editing / Montage : Rachid MAZOUZA Production Manager / Directeur de Production : Mohamed BAYOU Production secretary (Production assistant) / Secrétaire de Production : Yamina KESSAR Signs Expert / Expert Gestuel : Jacques DORMANT
Production / Production : ONCIC (Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique) - Algeria
Contact : CNCA (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel, Algiers)
AWARDS: - World Premiere: on 2 September 1983 (Venice Film Festival, Italy) - Winner: Best Actor Award (to Boumediene Belasri), at Amiens International Film Festival 1984 - Winner: Grand Prize (Etalon d'or de Yennega) - Étalon d'or au FESPACO 1985 (Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival) - BERLIN 85 - Black Movie Film Fest 1995 (GENEVA)
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