The Farewell Song

(1978)

★ 10 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary, Music

Year: 1978

Runtime: 116 мин

Country: Algeria, Egypt

Director: Ahmed Rachedi

Cast: Abdel Halim Hafez, Youssef Wahby, Nagwa Fouad, Tarek Habib, Nizar Qabbani, Kamal Al Taweel, Ahmed Fouad Hassan, Mustafa Ameen, محمد الموجي

Plot

Documentary tribute to the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez produced in 1977 consisting of archive images of the singer during his visit to Paris in September 1974, joined by fictional scenes which take the form of a journalistic investigation. A little-known film in the filmography of Ahmed Rachedi who during this Parisian period will direct another feature film that we would very much like to see again: "A Finger in the Gear" (1973), on a screenplay by Rachid Boudjedra. The credits and some images of "La chanson de l'Adieu", released in France in December 1981 in the famous Luxor hall in Paris where more than 5,000 spectators came to see it.