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Saimt el qusur = Les silences du palais = The silences of the palace / Capitol Entertainment ; Ted and Ronnie Goldberg ; une co-production Cinétélefilms & Magfilm (Tunisia), Mat Films (France); Capitol Entertainment ; scénario original et film de Moufida Tlatli ; producieurs Ahmed Baha Eddine Attia & Richard Magnien.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.W6 S34 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Tunesia--Social condition--Drama.
- Women.
- Motion pictures, Tunisian.
- Colonies.
- France--Colonies--Tunisia--Drama.
- France.
- Tunisia.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Silences du palais
- Silences of the palace
- Title sometimes transliterated as: Samt el koussour
- Title sometimes transliterated as: Ṣamt al-quṣūr
- Place of Publication:
- Bethesda, MD : Capitol Home Video, [1996]
- Language Note:
- In Arabic with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- As Alia, the daughter of a beautiful servant, Khedija, grows up in the king's palace at the end of the French colonial rule in Tunisia, she realizes the sexual favours required of her mother and other servants, as she, herself, is misused by those in power around her. Women had to live in silence, a silence so profound, they may come to doubt their own past -- even their own existence -- yet they survived these political realities with courage, comradship, and the resources of their bodies.
- Participant:
- Amel Hedhili, Hend Sabri, Zehira Ben Ammar, Fatima Ben Saidane, Sabah Bouzouita, Hélène Catzaras.
- Credits:
- Adaptation and dialogue, Nouri Bouzid ; cinematography, Youssef Ben Youssef ; music, Anouar Brahem.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 48041030
- Publisher Number:
- 9701 Capitol Home Video
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