A Summer in La Goulette

A Summer in La Goulette (1996)

Un été à La Goulette

Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

Date of release
1996-12-25
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Férid Boughedir

Casting

Interesting facts

A Summer in La Goulette is a 1996 film by Tunisian director Férid Boughedir. It is a narrative of how intercommunal relations deteriorated in cosmopolitan La Goulette after the end of French rule, especially Muslim-Jewish relations affected by the Six-Day War and the rising impact of Islam on Tunisian society.

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