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Chafik Shimi

Born February 23, 1948 · Casablanca, Morocco (age 78)

Moroccan actor and filmmaker born on 23 February 1948 in Casablanca. After his secondary studies he left for Lebanon for two years. Returning from the Middle East, he began to do amateur theater and translated plays by Bertolt Brecht, an author whom he introduced to the Moroccan public with the collaboration of the Goethe Institute in Casablanca. He left for France where he decided to pursue stu…

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The series is based on the French novel The Land by Emile Zola. Its episodes revolve around the human relationship with the land, as the wealthy farmer, Mr. Ahmed, decided to give away his lands to his three children, but one of them, called Al-Mahidi, refused to leave his family home. He married his cousin, the Sabura, who inherited a great inheritance, but that did not prevent him from pursuing his cousin for another Tayi cirka pour Cel.

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