Nahla

Jan 2, 1979

1h 51m

★ 7.0

Overview

After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war. Linked to Maha, Hind, Raouf and Michel who surround Nahla, he witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population. One day Nahla loses her voice on stage. The atmosphere of crisis that reigns around her is spreading like an infection. Larbi, fascinated, loses his footing and gets bogged down.

Genres

Drama

War

Music

Production Companies

R.T.A.

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Cast

Nahla

Yasmine Khlat

Nasri

Roger Assaf

Maha

Lina Tebbara

Raouf

Faek Homaissi

Larabi

Yousef Saiah‎

Hend

Nabila Zeitouni

Michel

Ahmed AlZein

Gibran

Abdullah Homsi

Nabil

Ahmed Mehrez

Himself

Ziad Rahbani

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