Bab'Aziz
| Bab'Aziz | |
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| Directed by | Nacer Khemir |
| Written by |
Tonino Guerra Nacer Khemir |
| Starring | Parviz Shahinkhou Maryam Hamid Hossein Panahi Nessim Khaloul Mohamed Graïaa Maryam Mohaid Golshifteh Farahani |
| Music by |
Armand Amar Abacus Consult Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra Naïve SIF309 Film & Music Productions |
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Production
company |
Behnegar
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| Distributed by | Bavaria Film International Typecast Releasing Trigon-Film |
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Release date
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country |
Iran Tunisia |
| Language |
Tunisian Arabic Persian |
| Box office | $263,447 |
Bab'Aziz: Le prince qui contemplait son âme (English: Bab'Aziz: The prince who contemplated his soul), often abbreviated to Bab'Aziz, is a 2005 film by Tunisian writer and director Nacer Khemir. It stars Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Hossein Panahi, Nessim Khaloul, Mohamed Graïaa, Maryam Mohaid and Golshifteh Farahani. It was filmed in Iran and Tunisia.
The film's complex and nonlinear narrative chiefly centers around the journey of a blind dervish, Bab'Aziz (Parviz Shahinkhou), and his granddaughter, Ishtar (Maryam Hamid), who — while traveling across the desert towards an immense Sufi gathering — encounter several strangers who relate the stories of their own mysterious and spiritual quests.
Bab'Aziz is the third part of Khemir's "Desert Trilogy", which also comprises his 1984 Les baliseurs du désert (Wanderers of the desert) and 1991 Le collier perdu de la colombe (The dove's lost necklace). The three films share structural elements and themes drawn from Islamic mysticism and classical Arab culture, as well as an isolated desert setting. Khemir has said:
"The desert… evokes the Arabic language, which bears the memory of its origins. In every Arabic word, there is a bit of flowing sand. It is also one of the main sources of Arabic love poetry. In all three of my movies… the desert is a character in itself."
Bab'Aziz is particularly concerned with Sufi themes. Khemir has stated that he wished to show, in the film, "an open, tolerant and friendly Islamic culture, full of love and wisdom . . . an Islam that is different from the one depicted by the media in the aftermath of 9/11", and that the unusual structure of the film was a deliberate attempt to imitate the structure of Sufi visions and dances, aimed at allowing the spectator to "forget about his own ego and to put it aside in order to open up to the reality of the world".
Bab'Aziz has grossed $263,447 worldwide.
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