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Three women in contemporary North African Islamic country are caught between tradition and modernity as they try to take control of their lives. Youngest of the women is twenty-something Leila who's love for Hassan must be kept hidden from her strict father. A successful doctor in her mid'...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | French Arabic |
| Language Notes: | In French and Arabic with English subtitles. |
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[Huntington Beach, Calif.] :
Vanguard Films Home Video,
[1999]
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| Summary: | Three women in contemporary North African Islamic country are caught between tradition and modernity as they try to take control of their lives. Youngest of the women is twenty-something Leila who's love for Hassan must be kept hidden from her strict father. A successful doctor in her mid' 40's, Naima studied medicine in Moscow where her hopes for settling with her Russian love were crushed by pressure from her family to enter an arranged marriage. Amina suffers from constant abuse by her husband. The lives of the three women weave together in unexpected ways portraying a society where patriarchal authority gets in the way of love, sexual expression and individual freedom. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Copyright date on disc surface: 2004. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Production Credits: | Music by Jean-François Bovard, Mami Azairez, Slim Larnaut; dialogues by Nadia Fares and Mabmoud Larnaout. |
| ISBN: | 1892649888 |