Arabic
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: حلاق درب الفقراء ,
French
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: ''Le coiffeur du quartier des pauvres'') is a 1982 Moroccan film directed by Mohamed Reggab and adapted from a play of the same title by Youssef Fadel. It was the director's sole feature film, and became a Moroccan cult classic. It was screened at the first edition of the National Film Festival in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
, where it received as a special mention and the 10th edition of the National Film Festival (December 13–20, 2008 in
Tangier
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...
) as part of a series on Moroccan classics. Internationally, the film was screened at
Three Continents Festival
The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau. and the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982. The debts incurred for the production of his sole feature film led to Reggab being imprisoned.
Synopsis
Miloud is a hairdresser in Derb Sultan, an old working-class neighborhood in
Casablanca
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. His friend Hmida has been hit hard by fate. He is rural migrant who arrived in the city after being disowned by his father. Since then, he has been living on petty theft, which has already earned him a prison sentence. Hmida is unemployed but spirited, while Miloud is nervous and desperate about his friend's illicit activities. When a wealthy entrepreneur who rules the neighborhood manages to evict the barber and his wife from their salon to build a
Quranic school
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, Hmida urges his friend to react.
Cast
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Mohamed El Habachi
Mohamed El Habachi (1939, Casablanca - 22 November 2013 in Casablanca) was a Moroccan actor. He was widely considered to be one of the pioneers of cinema and theater in Morocco, and was known for his performances in many Moroccan films such as Bl ...