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PERFUMES OF ALGIERS

By Rachid BENHADJ

AGENCE ALGERIENNE POUR LE RAYONNEMENT CULTUREL (AARC) - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ALGERIA
- Languages
- ALGERIAN, FRENCH
- Director(s)
- Rachid BENHADJ
- Writer(s)
- Rachid BENHADJ
- Cast
- Monica GUERRITORE, Abel JAFRI, Rym TAKOUCHT
- Producer(s)
- Mustapha ORIF (AARC)
- Synopsis
- Karima, a famous algerian photographer living in Paris since many years, is forced
  to come back to Algiers in a hurry to attend to the agony of the old patriarch, against
  which she had rebelled twenty years ago and cut off all contacts with.
  The forced come back among those who saw her birth and growing up and loved her,
  the family she left to escaped her father’s oppression, will awaken the ghosts of a
  repressed past.
  During these twenty years of exile in France, Karima did her possible to put aside her
  past and plunge into a reality of a world which was not hers. But which enabled her to
  survive without a memory.
  While she thought that she had finally exorcised this memory, that she had reduced
  to silence, she found herself remembering again. Every place, every object make her
  remember spontaneously the scars of the past.
  In the house of Algiers, she breaths again air and fragrances of the past, Karima finds
  that the music of memories is not always cheerful, often melancholic, sometimes
  even funeral, because the drama that pushed her into exile and cut ties with her
  family, took place there in that house with the fragrant gardens.
  Once again, for Karima it is the time for settlement of accounts. Nothing is more
  falsely calm that the places she loved, more deceiving than the intoxicating fragrances
  of Algiers.