Asfar al-sath
Subtitle: Halfaouine : child of the terraces
By: Ahmed Attio ... [et al.] présent ; a Ciné Télé Films ... [et al.] production ; with the R.T.T. ... [et al.] ; writted & directed by Ferid Boughedir.
Contributors: Boughedir, Ferid, 1944-; Boughedir, Selim.; Driss, Mohammed.; Ben Abdallah, Rabia.; Ben Saldane, Fatima.; Kazaras, Helene.; Ben Ammar, Zehira.; Chelby, Carolyn.; Gayess, Abdelhamid.; Cinétéléfilms (Firm); RTT (Firm); International Film Circuit (Firm); Kino International Corporation.
Edition: Letterboxed version (1.85 : 1)
Publisher: Kino on Video [distributor]
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: ara
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Baths, Turkish -- Drama.; Teenage boys -- Tunisia -- Drama.; Tunisia -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Halfaouine : child of the terraces; Child of the terraces; Halfaouine : boy of the terraces; Boy of the terraces
Description: Noura is an inquisitive thirteen-year-old whose eyes are opened to his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. Gazing upon the array of unclothed women and girls, Noura begins to experience his first pangs of longing. Just as Noura is awakened to the pleasures of the opposite sex, he risks being wrestled from their tender, affectionate companionship and thrust into the callous and rigid company of men.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.

Director of photography, Georges Borsky ; editors, Maoufido Tlotli, Marie-Christine Rougiere ; adaptation, Maryse Léon Garcia ; dialogues Taoufik Jebali ; music, Anour Braham.

Selim Boughedir, Mohammed Driss, Rabia Ben Abdallah, Fatima Ben Saldane, Helene Kazaras, Zehira Ben Ammar, Carolyn Chelby, Abdelhamid Gayess.

DVD format.

In Arabic with English or Spanish subtitles.

Official Selection Cannes 1990.

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