Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)
Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)
Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director’s native city. The camera travels freely, through the port, market, streets and cafés, capturing everyday people, some of whom recur frequently enough to seem like protagonists. The nominal plotline follows a French tourist couple’s leisurely visit to the city, the man having previously served in the army during the Algerian war. As they walk around, his comments betray his mindset’s racist colonial prejudices, while his wife reiterates asinine clichés. Their unhurried wandering is interrupted when he comes across a blind man and realises that he tortured him during his army service. The film is punctuated with punchy sequences that show a poet named Momo delivering verse as an elegy for Algiers.

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Cast

Mohamed Zinet Mohamed Zinet As: Hassan
Himoud Brahimi Himoud Brahimi As: Momo, the poet
Suzie Nacer Suzie Nacer As: The French Woman
Georges Arnaud Georges Arnaud As:
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Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet’s Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director’s native city. The camera travels freely, through the port, market, streets and cafés, capturing everyday people, some of whom recur frequently enough to seem like protagonists. The nominal plotline follows a French tourist couple’s leisurely visit to the city, the man having previously served in the army during the Algerian war. As they walk around, his comments betray his mindset’s racist colonial prejudices, while his wife reiterates asinine clichés. Their unhurried wandering is interrupted when he comes across a blind man and realises that he tortured him during his army service. The film is punctuated with punchy sequences that show a poet named Momo delivering verse as an elegy for Algiers.


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Genres: Comedy

Language: العربية, Français

Release Date: 02 January 1971

Country: DZ

Runtime: 77m

Company Credits

Company: APC d'Alger

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Cast

Directed By

Mohamed Zinet

Mohamed Zinet

Director

Anne Zinet

Anne Zinet

Script Supervisor

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Other Crew

Himoud Brahimi

Himoud Brahimi

Poem

Bruno Muel

Bruno Muel

Cinematography

Ali Marok

Ali Marok

Cinematography

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