A Prayer for the Absent

A Prayer for the Absent

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 2, 1995

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Original Title

La prière de l'absent

Production Companies

Les Films du Phoenix, Les Lumières de la Ville

Director

Hamid Benani

Description

In Morocco, during the resistance and struggle for independence in the 1950s, Mokhtar, a cultured young man from a middle-class family in Fez, is the unwitting cause of Yamna's downfall, and she must pay a high price to regain her dignity and freedom.