Full Description
This story of a Jewish community living in harmony with its neighbors on Islamic soil is told through the memories of three generations of a family now living in France. Testimonies highlighted with old photographs, postcards and archival footage invite us back to the peace of another time, in the city of Laghouat, Algeria, not so long ago. Family members fondly recall a common Islamic-Jewish culture in a place where Arab Jews and Muslims worked together, studied together and played together. Born into sacred textual traditions, both peoples looked for and found common ground in the Torah and the Koran. This directorial debut by Serge Lalou, producer of ROTHSCHILD’S VIOLIN (1998 SF JFF) and the LAST MARANNOS (1992 SF JFF), is a message from the past that needs to be heard today.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Born 1962. After veterinary studies and a few stays abroad, he founded Les Films d'Ici a film production company in 1986 where he is a producer. Serge Lalou has produced more than one hundred films some of which are listed below.
Filmography Documentary Films:
Louvre City
In the Land of the Deaf
Animals
Least of Things by director N. Philibert
Recreations and Coûte que Coûte by director Claire Simon
A feeling of happiness
Boulevards du Crépuscule
Italo Calvino
Citizen Langlois and Rotschild's Violin by director Edgardo Cozarinsky
So Blue So Calm by director Eliane de Latour
Stan Neumann's Films
Short Fiction Films:
The Lullaby (1987)
She loved, was loved and died (1989)
CD-ROM Production:
Delacroix, the trip to Morocco
Brancusi by Brancusi of Philippe Degeorges
Eluard, One hundred and one poems by M. Gaumnitz and B. Merino-Peris
Dürer, the trip to the Netherlands
