A Prayer for the Absent

Name: A Prayer for the Absent
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1995
Duration: 93 min

1995 · 93 min

Comedy · Drama

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In Morocco, during the resistance and struggle for independence in the 1950s, Mokhtar, a cultured young man from a middle-class family in Fez, is the unwitting cause of Yamna's downfall, and she must pay a high price to regain her dignity and freedom.

Crew

Director Hamid Benani
Writer Hamid Benani
Writer Mohamed Kaghat
Writer Mohamed Tazi
Director of Photography Girolamo La Rosa
Director of Photography Tonino Macoppi

Cast

Saadia Azgoun
Yemna
Hamid Basket
Mokhtar
A
Ahmed Tayeb Laalej
A
Abdelkebir Rguegda

Crew

Director — Hamid Benani
Writer — Hamid Benani
Writer — Mohamed Kaghat
Writer — Mohamed Tazi
Director of Photography — Girolamo La Rosa
Director of Photography — Tonino Macoppi

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