Movies: Mohamed Chouikh

  • 1982
    Sandstorm

    Sandstorm (1982)

    Sandstorm

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    Seen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a subtle and not-so-subtle mistreatment of the female members of the tribe - tribal chiefs have the right to be the first to deflower virgins, and single or...

    Sandstorm
  • 1970
    Elise, or Real Life

    Elise, or Real Life (1970)

    Elise, or Real Life

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    In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working lif...

    Elise, or Real Life
  • 1967
    The Winds of the Aures

    The Winds of the Aures (1967)

    The Winds of the Aures

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    Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swi...

    The Winds of the Aures
  • 1969
    The Outlaws

    The Outlaws (1969)

    The Outlaws

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    In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial con...

    The Outlaws
  • 1988
    The Citadel

    The Citadel (1988)

    The Citadel

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    El Kalaa, a village in southern Oran. Although already married, old Sidi planned to marry another. He sets his sights on the beautiful Aïssa, with whom Kaddour, his adopted son, is in love. The old man decides to play a trick on Kaddour to teach him ...

    The Citadel
  • 1982
    Breakdown

    Breakdown (1982)

    Breakdown

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    "Rupture is a look at a complex and little-known period in the recent history of Algeria, that of the thirties, a time when a political conscience was beginning to assert itself. I wanted to understand how and by what miracle, despite the small indiv...

    Breakdown
  • 1965
    Dawn of the Damned

    Dawn of the Damned (1965)

    Dawn of the Damned

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    This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French...

    Dawn of the Damned
  • 2005
    Douar de Femmes

    Douar de Femmes (2005)

    Douar de Femmes

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    At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film focuses on a small village that has been attacked more often by terrorists from the surrounding mount...

    Douar de Femmes
  • 1994
    Youssef: The Legend of the Seventh Sleeper

    Youssef: The Legend of the Seventh Sleeper (1994)

    Youssef: The Legend of the Seventh Sleeper

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    Directed by Mohamed Chouikh....

    Youssef: The Legend of the Seventh Sleeper
  • 1998
    The Desert Ark

    The Desert Ark (1998)

    The Desert Ark

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    The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love. Taking refuge in a cave, they listen to the sounds of a...

    The Desert Ark
  • 1965
    L'Obstacle

    L'Obstacle (1965)

    L'Obstacle

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    Algerian youth of the 1960s, straddling traditional South Mediterranean and Western culture and the desire for emancipation of younger generations to find true love....

    L'Obstacle
  • 1976
    The Nomads

    The Nomads (1976)

    The Nomads

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    When their father dies, three nomadic sons choose different voices. The first part for the city, the second tries to live as its ancestors develop and the third integrates one of the new agricultural cooperations. "A pastoral society (1,500,000 inhab...

    The Nomads
  • 1971
    The Passengers

    The Passengers (1971)

    The Passengers

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    A documentary about algerian immigration in France...

    The Passengers
  • 2003
    Dance of the Wind

    Dance of the Wind (2003)

    Dance of the Wind

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    Youssef, a director in his fifties, is preparing a film and goes scouting in the south of Tunisia. He travels the region, records images, meets a beautiful shepherdess during his stay in a mysterious village, before getting lost in the night....

    Dance of the Wind