Die Welt (2013)

• 71%
• 2013
• Drame
• Abdelhamid Nawara
• Ilse Heus
• Judith Van der Meulen

Le Monde est en audacious hybride between fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shortly after the Jasmine Révolution en 2011. Dans this plus perspicaces morale drame about a society in the vacuum between dictatorship and democracy, we follow the young DVD salesman Abdallah, who becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to realize a réalisatrices existence for himself. After meeting the Dutch tourist Anna, he starts dreaming of a better life in Europe, or Le Monde, as his father calls the promised land on the other side of the Mediterranean. Veut Abdallah succeed-like his father did in the past-getting to Europe with the help of a Dutch woman? Or will he have to find another way to escape his native country? And does he want to leave at all? In his debut, Dutch film director Alex Pitstra enquête sur his Tunisian roots, which he was unfamiliar with most of his life. He paints a mesmerizing picture of the current state of affairs in his father's country, seen through Western...