Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)

Tahia Ya Didou !

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.

Tahia Ya Didou !

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Mohamed Zinet
Mohamed Zinet
as Hassan
Himoud Brahimi
Himoud Brahimi
as Momo, Le poète
Suzie Nacer
Suzie Nacer
as The French Woman
Georges Arnaud
Georges Arnaud
as

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Himoud Brahimi
Himoud Brahimi
Poem
Himoud Brahimi
Himoud Brahimi
Dialogue
Bruno Muel
Bruno Muel
Cinematography
Mohamed Zinet
Mohamed Zinet
Director
El Hadj M'hamed El Anka
El Hadj M'hamed El Anka
Music
Ali Marok
Ali Marok
Cinematography
Mohamed Zinet
Mohamed Zinet
Writer
Antonio Catalano
Antonio Catalano
Other
A. Oulhi
A. Oulhi
Sound
Anne Zinet
Anne Zinet
Script Supervisor
Michel Portal
Michel Portal
Music

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