The Girl From Carthage
''The Girl from Carthage'' (also known as La fille de Carthage) is a 1924 Tunisian film written by Haydée Tamzali and directed by Albert Samama Chikly Albert Samama Chikly (24 January 1872 – December 28, 1934), was a Tunisian filmmaker and photographer. Considered one of the earliest pillars in World Cinema, Albert was a photographer, filmmaker, technophile, adventurer, cyclist and the pione .... This film has been music composed by Mark Smythe. The film stars Hayde Chikly, Ahmed Dziri, Abdelgassen Ben Taleb and Hadj Hadi Dehali in the lead roles. Cast * Hayde Chikly * Ahmed Dziri * Abdelgassen Ben Taleb * Hadj Hadi Dehali References External links * Arabic-language films Tunisian short films 1924 films {{Tunisia-film-stub ...
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Haydée Tamzali
Haydée Samama Chikly Tamzali (23 August 1906 – 20 August 1998) was a Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker. Early life Haydée Chikly was born in 1906, the daughter of Tunisian Jewish filmmaker Albert Samama Chikly. Her mother was Bianca Ferrero, an Italian-born woman from Savoy. Tamzali's paternal grandfather, David Samama, was a banker of the Bey who established a banking institution that would later become the Bank of Tunisia. Career Haydée Chikly worked with her father from girlhood. He directed her in her first starring role in a short film, ''Zohra'' (1922), written by her, and considered the first fiction film made in Tunisia. They followed this work with another silent drama in 1924, ''Ain el-Ghezal (The Girl from Carthage)'', also starring Haydée Chikly, in a story she wrote "to show how badly women were treated when they were just sold off with an arranged marriage into a man's world." The younger Chikly also took a turn at film editing and hand-coloring in ...
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