The Sultan of the City
Le sultan de la Médina
Tunisia
1992
97 Min
Color
Arabic
Synopsis
Young Ramla is brought to town by her parents to marry her cousin Bab to whom she has been betrothed since she was a child. The cousin in question being in prison, his mother Rabha, who manages her household as a true matron, decides to confine the young woman to her room pending the wedding. —diplomatie.gouv.fr
Director
Moncef Dhouib
Moncef Dhouib Born in 1952 in Sfax, Tunisia, Dhouib graduated from the University Paris III returning to Tunisia to work in street puppet theatre. Beginning in the 1980s, he directed a series of short films: Hammam D’Hab (1985), The Trance (El-Hadhrah, 1989) and Earth (Tourba, 1996). His first feature, The Sultan of the Medina (Soltane el-Medina, 1993), earned him critical and popular success. Dhouib’s play El-Mekki and Zakia ran for six years on stage in Tunisia. The TV Is Coming is his second feature-length fiction film. —sydneyarabfilmfestival.com
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