Samia

Overview

Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 15, 2000

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Countries

France

Production

Canal+,CNC,ARTE France Cinéma

Cast

Kheira Oualhaci,Farida Abdallah Hadj,Marie Rivière,Naïma Abdelhamid,Lynda Benahouda,Nadia El Koutei,Lakhdar Smati,Amel Sahnoune,Mohamed Chabane-Chaouche,Yamina Amri

Director

Philippe Faucon

Writer

Philippe Faucon,Soraya Nini

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0261270