Zohra (film)

Zohra

Directed by Albert Samama Chikly
Produced by Albert Samama Chikly
Written by Haydée Chickly
Starring Haydée Chickly
Running time
 35 minutes
Country Tunisia
Language French intertitles

Zohra is a 1922 silent 35 mm short film from Tunisia by Albert Samama ('Chikly').[1][2][3][4] It was the first indigenous North African film production.[5] The movie script was written by Chikly's daughter, Haydée Chikly, who also edited and starred as the key female protagonist in the film.[6][7][8][9]

Plot

The plot of the movie evolves around a shipwrecked young French woman, who is rescued by Beduins. She lives with the Beduin tribe for a time. She is later abducted by bandits, but is rescued by a French aviator and reunites with her family.[10] Tribal customs are displayed in detail in the film.[1][11] The movie is seen as an example of the 'mysterious Orient' genre.[3]

Reception

The film was screened at the Omnia Pathé cinema in Tunis, and enjoyed a degree of success.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 Les cinémas d'Afrique: dictionnaire. KARTHALA Editions. 2000. p. 409. ISBN 978-2-84586-060-5.
  2. ↑ Lizbeth Malkmus; Roy Armes (1991). Arab and African film making. Zed Books. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-86232-916-7.
  3. 1 2 Kenneth Perkins (20 January 2014). A History of Modern Tunisia. Cambridge University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-107-02407-6.
  4. ↑ Annette Kuhn; Guy Westwell (21 June 2012). A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 0-19-958726-4.
  5. ↑ Terri Ginsberg; Chris Lippard (11 March 2010). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8108-7364-3.
  6. ↑ Roy Armes (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-253-35116-2.
  7. ↑ Roy Armes (2006). African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara. Indiana University Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-253-21898-5.
  8. ↑ Roy Armes (29 June 1987). Third World Film Making and the West. University of California Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-520-90801-7.
  9. ↑ Roy Armes (2005). Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Indiana University Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-253-21744-X.
  10. ↑ "A cinema history". Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  11. ↑ The Jewish Quarterly, eds. 197–204. Jewish Literary Trust. 2005. p. 58.
  12. ↑ POUILLON François (1 November 2008). Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française. KARTHALA Editions. p. 863. ISBN 978-2-8111-4099-1.
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