La Corniche d'Amour

APPROPIATE

1955 / 29min.

Rating0

Genres

Comedy

Synopsis

Two rich tourists, a photographer and a painter, meet during a walk in Kabylia. Their wanderings are an opportunity to highlight the many tourist and picturesque places on the Algerian coast. This film commissioned by the Defense Communication and Audiovisual Production Establishment (ECPAD), attempts to sell a tourist destination when Algeria was in flames with the outbreak of the Algerian national liberation war. Filmed with the colonial lens of the time, the natives are only one element of a picturesque setting, and the final kiss between a French woman and an Arab man is an attempt to demonstrate a pacified country. Despite everything, the film constitutes a precious archive for Béjaïa, which is the subject for the first time of a film which immortalizes a moment in its history, and to introduce the work of Tahar Hannache, actor, cinematographer and director, one of the pioneers of Algerian cinema.

Directors

Actors

José Noguéro

Evelyne Corman

Monique Ravene

Similar

Bab El Oued City

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that

1994

5.9

The Empire of Dreams

A stubborn director who wants to rediscover the Algiers of his childhood comes up against the “Hollywood” fantasies of his characters, non-professiona

1982

10.0

Chronicles of my Village

In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the children of martyrs would obtain everything after

2016

7.0

Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a public

1971

10.0

Carnaval fi Dachra

Makhlouf Bombardier, unusual, decides to be elected mayor of a dechra (village). So he surrounds himself with trusted partners to organize a great cam

1994

9.0

عائلة كي الناس

1990

8.0

Le Clandestin

Nine people with Abdullah Le Clandestin (Illegal Taxi), in one car, on the way to Algiers.

1989

10.0

Where Fig Trees Grow

An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.

2005

10.0

الولف صعيب - El Ouelf Essaïb

El Ouelf Essaïb (الولف صعيب) is a comedy written and directed by Mohamed Hilmi, released in 1990. An Algerian music composer and his friends live a th

1990

10.0

The Harem of Madame Osmane

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her

2000

6.2

Les Vacances de l'apprenti

1999

10.0

L'inspecteur Tahar marque le but

1975

10.0

Scream

An experimental essay film about terrorism, media, violence and globalisation. Three infotainment news broadcasts - a rollercoaster, a hijacking, and

2021

0.0

Les Chats

1979

10.0

Hassan Taxi

1982

8.3

Machaho

In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, buried under the snow. He takes him in and nurses hi

1995

10.0

First Step

A modern couple seeks to find marital happiness in a context where Algerian society is taking the “first step” towards female emancipation. A woman be

1980

10.0

From Hollywood to Tamanrasset

On the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria. the arrival of the satellite dishes governs the lives of the inhabitants. Dissatisfied with their lives, they th

1990

9.0