The Unexpected Party
1953 · 23 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy, Music
This musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic trio composed of Rouiched, Mohamed Touri and Sid Ali Fernandel, accompanied by the orchestra of the master of the Algiers Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, the singer Fadhéla Dziria, Mustapha Skandrani on the piano. Some scenes were filmed at the Summer Palace (the current Palace of the Algerian Presidency, called the People's Palace). André Zwobada, the director, will play an important role after the independence of Algeria in 1962, in the production and preservation of the first Algerian newsreels.
Directed by André Zwobada
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Rouiched 
Sid Ali Fernandel 
Mohamed Touri 
El Hadj M'hamed El Anka 
Fadhéla Dziria 
Mustapha Skandrani 
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