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El Manara (2004) is a movie. Belkacem Hadjadj has directed this movie. Tarek Hadj Abdelhafid,Khaled Ben Aissa,Farouk Boutadjine,Nacer Chenouf are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. El Manara (2004) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
El- Manara, is a brutally direct depiction of Algerian society during the rise of fundamentalist Islam, which was to give rise to civil war following the annulment of the 1991 elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won. It follows the life of Asma who now lives with her daughter in France, having, like many Algerians, fled the war.The film flashes back to Algiers where Asma, a university lecturer shares an apartment with her friends Ramadan, a doctor and Fawzi, a newspaper journalist. They attend the Manara festivities, celebrating Prophet Mohamed's anniversary. The event, a peaceful carnival with music and fireworks, is used as a backdrop to subsequent social transformations, and acts to give the viewer an idea of Muslim traditions in Algeria, which are placed in confrontation with the Wahabite ideology of the FIS. The three young people face obstacles to their friendship and carefree life as the traumas of the 1988 Algerian uprising and ensuing repression brings them ...
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we'r not talking cinema here
hello; this piece is definitely not a good picture, actually it is not even a picture. i wished i read it as a novel rather than watching it as a movie. the plot is fine and will coherent to a certain extent but it lacks all film-making characteristics, or to say it in a different way this piece of work is not in consistency with pictures' artistic form. still the theme of the story is so important, and having it done in CENIMATIC FORM is probably a necessity. as to fill the rest of the required lines in order to submit this comment; the character of Ramadan is of great importance since it carries the theme of un-exchanged emotions (love) and repressed sexual desires.