Badis

Badis
Directed by : Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi
Production : Audiovisual Arts and Techniques, Television Espagnola S.A.
Scriptwriter : Farida Benlyazid, Nourredine Sail
Country : Morocco
Language : Arabic
Release Date : 1988
Runtime : 90 min
Cast : Jilali Farhati, Maribel Verdu, Zakia Tahiri, Naima Lamcharki, Aziz Saad Allah, Bachir Skirej, Miguel Molina
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Synopsis
1974, a small fishing village in the shadow of the Badis forest, Spanish enclave in Moroccan territory. A teacher from Casablanca is voluntarily transfered in this lost village, to better monitor his wife. He sequestrates her at home. She befriends Moira, a girl from the village whose father is a fisherman and whose mother, Spanish, fled 15 years earlier. An affair will begin between a Spanish garrison soldier and Moira. But the gossip and intrigue of the villagers ended this idyll. Prisoners of this narrow world, the two women will try to flee ...