A Prayer for the Absent (1995)
La prière de l'absent
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.
- Date of release
- 1995-01-02
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Hamid Benani
Casting
- Saadia Azgoun — Yemna
- Hamid Basket — Mokhtar
- Ahmed Tayeb Laalej
- Abdelkebir Rguegda
Interesting facts
The Absent's Prayer is a 1995 Moroccan film. It is an adaptation by director Hamid Bénani, of the novel of the same name by Tahar Ben Jelloun.
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