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Mouny Berrah

Born January 1, 1949 · Alger, Algeria

Died January 1, 2000 · aged 50

Mouny Berrah born Mouny Laâzib, in 1949 in Algiers in Algeria within a family originally from Beni Yenni in Kabylia, is an Algerian sociologist and critic for the magazine Les 2 Écrans in particular, on television in Télé Ciné Club. She has published several works on the cinema of the Maghreb and the Arab world. Her brilliant studies of sociology in Paris where she had followed, among others, the…

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After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war. Linked to Maha, Hind, Raouf and Michel who surround Nahla, he witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population. One day Nahla loses her voice on stage. The atmosphere of crisis that reigns around her is spreading like an infection. Larbi, fascinated, loses his footing and gets bogged down.

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