SEPHARDIC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL &      

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA

Present:

Soleil    

 
Sunday, January 19th, 1:00 p.m.
Sephardic International Film Festival
France, 1997, 35mm color, 111 minutes, French, Arabic, w/ English subtitles, Roger Hanin, Director

Warm, lavish exteriors and gorgeous performances by Sophia Loren and talented young actors convey the sensuality of North African Jewish culture.

A 13-year-old boy's life is transformed when, along with several of his comrades, he is kicked out of school for being Jewish. Meyer's mother Titine, played by Sophia Loren, must raise her family alone because her communist husband (Phillipe Noiret, Il Postino) goes into hiding.

Remaining graceful and dignified as she struggles to keep her family alive and together, Titine charms local black marketeers into giving her food and goods when she is too poor to pay. When her son is caught writing anti-governement graffiti, she talks the colonial authorities into keeping him out of jail.

After living in relative harmony with Muslims and Christians for hundreds of years, Jews in Algeria were suddenly faced with the discriminatory laws of France's pro-Nazi government. SOLEIL is Algerian-born French director Roger Hanin's semi-autobiographical fiction, set in Algeria during World War II.

 
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