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Retrospective

Le Collier Perdu de la Colombe

FromNACER KHEMIR

WithNAVIN CHOWDHRY, WALID ARAKJI, NINAR ESBER u.a.

Year1991

Duration88min.

Like an oriental storyteller, Nacer Khemir conjures up the heyday of Andalusian-Arabic high culture in fantastically beautiful images. Based on the story of a student of calligraphy who sets out in search of the 60 terms that the Arabic language recognises for love, he takes us into a wondrous, distant world in which spirits and visions are still real and in which the boundaries between reality and illusion are blurred: A paradise rich in myths, where different cultures, religions and lifestyles coexist peacefully, and which in the end is threatened by striving for power, fanaticism and decay. And similar to calligraphy, in which the letters are as beautiful as their content, individual details come to the fore. (Florian Widegger)