A Summer in La Goulette

• Sonia Mankai: Meriem
• Ava Cohen- Jonathan: Tina
• Sarah Pariente: Gigi
• Mustapha Adouani: Youssef
• Guy Nataf: Jojo
• Ivo Salerno: Giuseppe
• Gamil Ratib: Hadj Beji
• Claudia Cardinale: they
• Michel Boujenah: he himself

A Summer in La Goulette is a Tunisian- French- Belgian film from the year 1996. The government took over Férid Boughedir. The comedy about three teenagers and their fathers was begun in 1996 in competition at the International Film Festival in Berlin.

Action

In the summer of 1967 to experience three young girls in La Goulette, a seaside resort near Tunis, the first love. Meriem is Tunisian and Muslim, Gigi is of Italian origin and Christin, Tina comes from a Tunisian Jewish family. The fathers of three girls Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, also have a long term friendship. The girls who do not want marriage arranged by parents who take an oath to each other, to lose their virginity before the end of the summer. When the fathers learn that their daughters get involved with young men from other faiths, the friendship of three men is put to a severe test.

Background

With Michel Boujenah and Claudia Cardinale have two born in Tunis and internationally successful actor guest appearances. Both Boujenah and Cardinale play themselves

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film ruled: ". A comically accented film about tolerance and understanding about seemingly insurmountable religious barriers of time "