Khorma, l'enfant des cimetières
Synopsis
Bizerte, a small provincial town in Tunisia.
Khorma is a young orphan who amazes people by his red hair and pale skin. He lives under the protection of old Bou Khaleb, who acts as a father to him. Bou Khaleb brings news to people and prays for the dead; he tries to transmit the secrets of these crafts to his young charge.
The master and his apprentice have different ideas about this work: Bou Khaleb believes that, when in the service of God, one must accept whatever sum people wish to give. Khorma sees things from a more commercial angle and wants to set a price for each service rendered. Bou Khaleb is the uncontested chief; Khorma therefore resigns himself to working in the old way.
Things change at last when Bou Khaleb, who has become a little deaf, makes a serious mistake: he announces the death of a local woman instead of announcing her daughter’s wedding. What a disaster! Worse still, fate hounds him, for three days later, the poor woman dies a second time, but this time for rea...
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Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : K-Star, Pierre Javaux Productions
- Foreign production companies : Jilani Saadi Productions, K2 Productions
- French distribution : Eurozoom
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producers : Pierre Javaux, Dominique Janne
- Screenwriter : Jilani Saadi
- Director of Photography : Gilles Porte
- Music Composer : Khaled Namlaghi
- Editor : Philippe Ravoet
- Sound recordists : David Rit, Moez Becheikh
- Costume designer : Fatma Ben Mahmoud
- Production managers : Mahmoud Ben Dhifallah, Marie-Astrid Lamboray
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound Editor : Eric De Vos
- Production Designer : Anes Talmoudi
- French distributor : Amel Lacombe
- Sound mixers : Benoît Biral, Thomas Gauder
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Coproducer countries : Tunisia, Belgium, France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Tunisia, Belgium, France)
- Production year : 2001
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