Amal (1960)
• October 10th, 1960 • 0h 20min
Documentary, Drama
Overview
A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Trees of Justice.
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