''In Search of My Wife's Husband'' (
French
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: ''À la recherche du mari de ma femme'') is a 1993 Moroccan
comedy film
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directed by
Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi and written by Farida Belyazid. It was screened at multiple national and international film festivals., where it won a number of prizes. It is one of Morocco's most popular domestic films, reaching approximately a million spectators. ''
Lalla Hobby
''Lalla Hoby'' is a 1996 Moroccan comedy film
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'' is the film's sequel.
Synopsis
An unrepentant womanizer,
polygamist Hadj Benmoussa lives in the old medina of
Fez
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* Fez (hat), a type of felt hat commonly worn in the Ottoman Empire
* Fez, Morocco (or Fes), the second largest city of Morocco
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with his three wives, who maintain fairly good relations between themselves within their household. When he suspects his favorite wife Houda of flirting with a younger man, he divorces her for the third time in a sudden fit of jealousy, but soon comes to regret it. But Islamic law is intractable on the matter: Hadj Benmoussa will be able to marry Houda again only if another man makes her his wife and divorces her in his turn...
Cast
*
Bachir Skiredj (Hadj Ben Moussa)
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Mouna Fettou (Houda)
*
Naïma Lamcharki (Lalla Rabea)
* Amina Rachid (Lalla Hobby)
* Fatima Moustaid (Tamo)
* Lalla Mamma (Houda's mother)
* Mohamed Afifi (Houda's father)
* Ahmed Taïeb El Alj (jeweler)
* Abderrahim Bargach (tailor)
* Mahdi Kotbi (the second husband)
* Fatima Mernissi
References
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Moroccan comedy films
1993 comedy films