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Un Été à La Goulette / A Summer in La Goulette. 1996.


Un Été à La Goulette / A Summer in La Goulette. 1996.
FR. A La Goulette, banlieue de Tunis, Youssef le musulman, Jojo le juif et Giuseppe le Sicilien catholique partagent un bonheur nonchalant. Jusqu'au jour ou chacune de leurs filles decide de perdre sa virginite avec un garcon d'une autre religion que la sienne. 
EN. A Summer in La Goulette (French: Un été à La Goulette, Arabic: صيف حلق الوادي‎) is a 1996 film by Tunisian director Férid Boughedir. It is a narrative of how intercommunal relations deteriorated in cosmopolitan La Goulette after the end of French rule, especially Muslim-Jewish relations affected by the Six-Day War and the rising impact of Islam on Tunisian society.
The film also features La Goulette native Claudia Cardinale as herself. The film was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem. Youssef's daughter Meriem.
Director: Férid Boughedir.
Cast: Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan, Sarah Pariente, Mustapha Adouani, Amel Hedhili, Guy Nataf, Hélène Catzaras, Ivo Salerno, Gamil Ratib, Fatma Ben Saïdane, Claudia Cardinale.
Tunisia, France, Belgium, 1996.
Language: French, Arabic, Italian.
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