44 or Tales of the Night (French: 44 ou les récits de la nuit, Arabic: 44 aw Oustourat al layl) is a French-Moroccan film directed by Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi in 1981[1] and released in 1985.[2][3][4][5]
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Directed by | Moumen Smihi |
Written by | Moumen Smihi |
Cinematography | Abdelkarim Derkaoui, Pierre Lhomme |
Edited by | Moumen Smihi |
Music by | Guido Baggiani, Ben Yarmolinsky |
Release date | 1985 |
Running time | 115 minutes |
Countries | Morocco, France |
The film chronicles the tale of two Moroccan families, one from Fez, the other from Chaouen, from 1912 to 1956, the duration of the European protectorate over Morocco.[6]