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Amal

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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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Status: Released

Released Date: 1960-10-10

Runtime: 20 mins

Director: James Blue

Writer: James Blue

Spoken language: Français

Genres: Documentary, Drama

Original title: Amal

Production Companies: Société Algérienne de Production des Studios Africa

Production Countries: Algeria

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