Over there… my country

Là-bas… my country is a French film of Alexandre Arcady left in 2000.

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Synopsis

Pierre Nivel is a large journalist who presents the 13 hour old newspaper. But behind this journalist, a man who has to flee, at the 17 years hides age his native Algeria because the civil war burst. One day it receives a call of certain Leila, an young woman with which Pierre was passionately in love before it leaves Algeria. Thirty years after his departure of Algiers, Pierre had to try to forget these events because it was without news of Leila. It thus flies away for Algiers and to discover why Leila required of Pierre to come urgently…

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  • Là-bas my country is drawn from the novel éponyme of Rene Bonell.
  • It is Daniel Saint-Hamont, the faithful scenario writer of Alexandre Arcady who comments on film.
  • This film marks the fourth collaboration with the scenario with Antoine Lacomblez and Alexandre Arcady. The two men had already written the scenarios of following films: For Sacha in 1991, Tell yes me in 1995 and K in 1997 (Co-writing with Jorge Semprun and Serge Raffy). Did the two men write the scenario of new film of Alexandre Arcady, You can maintain a secrecy? which will leave on May 7th, 2008.
  • Alexandre Arcady made this film by drawing these events from its own experience because it was born with Algiers in 1947 and left Algeria at 15 years.
  • It is the second film of Alexandre Arcady which speaks about the Pieds-Noirs which left Algeria in the Sixties. Alexandre Arcady had already signed in 1979 the Blow of Sirocco with Roger Hanin, Marthe Villalonga and Patrick Bruel. This talking film about the same topic of the Pied-noir ones.

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