Top Cast
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Denise Cardi
The Princess
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Jean Cocteau
Narrator (voice)
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Himoud Brahimi
The jester
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Larbi Tounsi
The Prince
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Duncan Elliott
Narrator (voice)
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Bent Larsen
The Prince
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Gina Manès
Overview
This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman she thought would love her is killed by a madwoman.
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