ComedyDrama

A Prayer for the Absent

Name: A Prayer for the Absent
Director: Hamid Benani
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1995-01-02
Duration: 93 min
Cast: Saadia Azgoun, Hamid Basket, Ahmed Tayeb Laalej, Abdelkebir Rguegda

January 2, 1995

1h 33m

In Morocco, during the resistance and struggle for independence in the 1950s, Mokhtar, a cultured young man from a middle-class family in Fez, is the unwitting cause of Yamna's downfall, and she must pay a high price to regain her dignity and freedom.