Le Chant des mariées

Le Chant des mariées
Directed by Karin Albou
Produced by Gloria Films
Screenplay by Karin Albou
Starring Lizzie Brocheré, Olympe Borval, Simon Abkarian, Najib Oudghiri, Karin Albou
Music by François-Eudes Chanfrault
Cinematography Laurent Brunet
Edited by Camille Cotte
Release dates
 2008
Running time
 100'
Country France
Tunisia
Language French
Arabic

Le Chant des mariées (Arabic: اغنية العروس, English: The Wedding Song) is a 2008 Franco-Tunisian film.

Synopsis

Tunis, 1942. Muslim Nour (Olympe Borval) and Jewish Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré), both sixteen years old, have been friends since childhood. They live in the same building in a humble neighbourhood where their communities live in harmony. Each secretly desires the other’s life. While Nour regrets not going to school like her friend, Myriam dreams of love. In November 1942, the German army enters Tunis. Following the French Vichy government’s policy, the Nazis subject the Jewish population to harsh tax penalties. Tita (Karin Albou), Myriam’s mother, is forbidden work. Overcome by debt, she decides to marry her daughter Myriam to the rich doctor Raoul (Simon Abkarian). Myriam dreams of love vanish at one blow.

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