Zabana! Filming Locations

Zabana! filming locations

Where was Zabana! filmed? Zabana! was filmed in 2 locations across Algeria in the following places:

Zabana! Filming Locations

Oran is a port city in northwest Algeria, known as the birthplace of rai folk music. Fort Santa Cruz, an Ottoman citadel rebuilt by the Spanish, sits atop Mount Murdjadjo and has views of the bay below. Nearby is the whitewashed Chapelle Santa Cruz, built after a cholera epidemic. In La Blanca, the Turkish old town, is the 18th-century Pacha Mosque with an octagonal minaret. Nearby, Kasr El Bey is an Ottoman palace.

Mascara also spelled Maskara, is the capital city of Mascara Province. It has 150,000 inhabitants. It was founded in the 10th century by the Banu Ifran, a Berber tribe, and was the capital city of Emir Abd al-Qadir, a leader of the Algerian resistance to early French colonial rule in the 19th century.

Zabana! (2012)
Runtime: 107 minutes
Rating: 6.0
Release year: 2012
IMDB: tt2379344
Plot summary

Algeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.

Genres
Drama
History
War
Cast
Imad Benchenni
Khaled Benaïssa
Abdelkader Djeriou
Nicolas Pignon
Directors
Saïd Ould Khelifa
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Zabana! filming locations