Bab'Aziz
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Nacer Khemir
Maryam Hamid
Hossein Panahi
Nessim Khaloul
Mohamed Graïaa
Maryam Mohaid
Golshifteh Farahani
Abacus Consult
Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Naïve
SIF309 Film & Music Productions
| Bab'Aziz | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Production company | Behnegar |
| Distributed by | Bavaria Film International Typecast Releasing Trigon-Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Countries | Iran Tunisia |
| Languages | Tunisian Arabic Persian Hindi |
| 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).[1] The three films share structural elements and themes drawn from Islamic mysticism and classical culture, as well as an isolated desert setting.
Bab'Aziz is particularly concerned with Sufi themes. Khemir has stated[1] 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",[1] and that the unusual structure of the film was a deliberate attempt to imitate the structure of Iranian 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".[1]
Cast
- Parviz Shahinkhou as Bab'Aziz
- Maryam Hamid as Ishtar
- Hossein Panahi as red dervish
- Nessim Khaloul as Zaid
- Mohamed Graïaa as Osman
- Golshifteh Farahani as Nour
- Soren Mehrabiar as dervish
