Al-Salam Al-Walid Filming Locations
Where was Al-Salam Al-Walid filmed? Al-Salam Al-Walid was filmed in 1 locations across Algeria in the following places:
Al-Salam Al-Walid Filming Locations
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria, on the country’s Mediterranean coast. It’s known for the whitewashed buildings of the Kasbah, a medina with steep winding streets, Ottoman palaces and a ruined citadel. The 17th-century Ketchaoua Mosque is flanked by 2 large minarets. The Great Mosque has marble columns and arches. The clifftop Catholic basilica of Notre-Dame d'Afrique features a large silver dome and mosaics.
Al-Salam Al-Walid (1965)
The children of two orphanages face each other in a football match which, the result not being accepted by the protagonists, continues in the form of a game representing the war between the OAS and the FLN . This is the first fiction feature film from independent Algeria. Jacques Charby, who had been sentenced in absentia in 1961 to ten years in prison for helping the FLN, tells the story of his adopted son Mustapha (the child plays his own role), tortured and mutilated at the age of eight years by the French paratroopers. The film was selected in official competition in 1965 at the Cannes Film Festival, the same year it won the Young Cinema Prize at the Moscow Film Festival.