Tahia Ya Didou !

1971
7.2| 1h17m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 02 January 1971 Released
Producted By: APC d'Alger
Country: Algeria
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/60309_0
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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.

Genre

Comedy

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Director

Mohamed Zinet

Production Companies

APC d'Alger

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Tahia Ya Didou ! Audience Reviews

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.