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JANITOU

By Amine HATTOU

Documentary - Post-Production 2018

A journey to unravel love in past and contemporary Algeria by exploring the unique phenomenon of a Bollywood film that swept the country in the 1980s.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ALGERIA, GERMANY, QATAR
- Languages
- ALGERIAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Amine HATTOU
- Producer(s)
- Amine HATTOU, Thomas KASKE (Kaske Films)
- Synopsis
- In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollywood film 'Janitou’
  became an unexpected overnight sensation throughout the country. It tells the timeless story of young lovers
  torn apart by the bigotry of their families and society at large.
  
  While the film has become lodged in Algerian popular culture, this documentary is a journey to unravel this unlikely but intimate connection between two distinct cultures, a truthful tribute to cinema, and an Algerian man’s personal quest to discover what love and repression are in past and contemporary Algeria.