Cinema
القنفودي
Nabyl Lahlou · 1978
Synopsis
Hamid Kanfoudi, a conductor whom nobody knows, wins a lottery, according to Africultures, or dreams that he wins it, according to the sheet of the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre and the press material. The fortune brings him no improvement, in a greedy world where everything comes down to money, and he then realises, says the Centre, everything that his daily life deprives him of.
Context
According to Africultures, the filmmaker adapted the film from his own play. It was produced by Loukkous Film with the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre, one of the few projects of its author to receive the support of this body, according to Oliver Leaman and Fouad Souiba. The cinematography is by Ahmed Zanati, the editing by Ahmed Bouanani, and the filmmaker himself acts in it, alongside Ghita Ben Abdessalam, Mustapha Mounir, Hammadi Ammor and Mohamed Miftah. Cinéfiches classes it among the comedies, under the themes of dreams and the lottery.
Who it is for
A feature film in Arabic, in black and white, 86 minutes long; no video copy is known.
Prizes and reception
His first feature film, and his first major success according to Yabiladi, which ranks it first among his major works.
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