143 rue du désert

Jun 16 2021 N/A 1h 40m
Documentary

Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived as a "literary fantasy", suddenly takes on an unsuspected human depth in this environment naturally hostile to man. She lends herself to the film project as she welcomes her clients, with an economy of gestures and words, an impression reinforced by the mystery that surrounds her and the rare elements of her biography which suggest that she is not from the region, that she left the fertile north of Algeria to settle in the desert where she lives with a dog and a cat.

Plot

In the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.

Written by

Hassen Ferhani

Directed by

Hassen Ferhani

Cast

Malika, Samir El Hakim, Chawki Amari

Crew

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Production Countries

France, Qatar, Algeria

Production Companies

Allers Retours Films, Centrale Électrique

Languages

Français, English

Awards

6 wins & 13 nominations total

Trailers
143 SAHARA STREET Trailer | TIFF 2019
143 Rue Du Désert - Trailer by Hassen Ferhani
Scores
# of Votes
224
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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