Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Mar 21, 2001

1h 39m

★ 6.6

Overview

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

TPS Cinéma

TF1 International

Ali'n Productions

Gimages 3

Alexis Films

Ace Editing

Remstar Films

Canal+

Centre Cinématographique Marocain

Playtime

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets Trailers

Cast

Kwita

Mounïm Kbab

Boubker

Hicham Moussoune

Omar

Mustapha Hansali

Ali Zaoua

Abdelhak Zhayra

Dib

Saïd Taghmaoui

Madame Zaoua

Amal Ayouch

Le pêcheur

Mohamed Majd

Le Marin

Hicham Ibrahimi

La Lycéenne

Nadia Ould Hajjaj

Père de la lycéenne

Ahmed Naim

Amie de la lycéenne

Meriame Raiss

Propriétaire droguerie

Abdelkader Lofti

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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

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