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Release Date:
June 16, 2021
Original Title:
143 rue du désert
Alternate Titles:
El reino de Malika
Il regno di Malika
Królestwo Maliki
Le Royaume de Malika
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Allers Retours Films
Centrale Électrique
Production Countries:
Algeria | France | Qatar
Ratings / Certifications:
FR: U
Runtime: 90
Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived as a "literary fantasy", suddenly takes on an unsuspected human depth in this environment naturally hostile to man. She lends herself to the film project as she welcomes her clients, with an economy of gestures and words, an impression reinforced by the mystery that surrounds her and the rare elements of her biography which suggest that she is not from the region, that she left the fertile north of Algeria to settle in the desert where she lives with a dog and a cat.
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Director:
Hassen Ferhani
Director of Photography:
Hassen Ferhani
Editor:
Nadia ben Rachid
Nina Khada
Hassen Ferhani
Stéphanie Sicard
Producer:
Olivier Boischot
Narimane Mari
Screenplay:
Hassen Ferhani
Sound:
Mohamed Ilyas Guetal
Sound Designer:
Antoine Morin
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