Initial release 1939 | ||
Similar Zohra, Man of Ashes, Goha, The Silences of the Palace, A Summer in La Goulette | ||
The Fool of Kairouan (Arabic: مجنون القيروان ; transliteration: Majnun al-Kairawen; French: Fou de Kairouan), produced in 1939, is the first Tunisian musical film, and the first film made in Arabic in Tunisia. It is starred by the singer Mohamed Jamoussi. It is considered one of the key films in the pre–World War II history of cinema in North Africa.
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