Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal running the residence's prostitution circle, returns from prison on his wedding day. Fraj, his brother and the town warlock, falls in love with Ramla, his brother's future wife: He is the only man of the residence who has seen her face, as she is kept prisoner in one of the rooms until the wedding night.
Mustapha Adouani (October 2, 1946 – December 14, 2006) was a Tunisian actor, best known for Man of Ashes (1986). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mustapha Adouani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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