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July Dust

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine. "We made a film on the return of the ashes of Emir Abdelkader, to Algeria. It was the opportunity to make a film on the ancestors with M'hamed Issiakhem. He designed glass plates on the basis of my texts. Then we had actors collaborate. It was a film which cost us a total of 300 dinars, proof that we could do work for television without too much money. We won two first international prizes at the Belgrade festival. We left the original of the film with the Egyptians in Alexandria and they lost it. We kept a copy but over time I wonder what happened to it, because there is no not even had a screening, they say it still exists, but I don't know in what state." Kateb Yacine, July 28, 1986, interview with Arlette Casas.

Original Title

Poussière de Juillet

Release Date

1967-01-01

Year

1967

Status

Released

Score

10.00

Genres

#poetry#algeria#algerian-war-(1954-62)#anti-colonialism#experimental-cinema#maghreb#panafricanism#djazair#revolutionary-poetry#chouhada

Cast

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Naïma El Medhi

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Samir Ben Chérifa