The dark underbelly of Casablanca – a world of night clubs and brothels – is not a place for fateful love, and yet it sometimes flourishes here. The fallen woman Rajae and the devilish former rocker Larsen are brought together by a car crash, and their hearts can never be separated again… Director Ismaël El Iraki says that Zanka Contact is not a film but an all-consuming flame – and the viewer has to agree with him. Wild at Heart and True Romance with an oriental twist.
The dark underbelly of Casablanca – a world of night clubs and brothels – is not a place for fateful love, and yet it sometimes flourishes here. The fallen woman Rajae and the devilish former rocker Larsen (who never leaves his snakeskin-covered guitar out of sight) are brought together by a car crash, and their hearts can never be separated again… Director Ismaël El Iraki says that Zanka Contact is not a film but an all-consuming flame – and we are forced to agree with him. Wild at Heart and True Romance with an oriental twist and a wild homage to Italian Westerns and Morocco’s 1970s rock scene – all that is Zanka Contact.
Anna Kořínek
120 min / Color, DCP
Director Ismaël El Iraki
/ Screenplay Ismaël El Iraki
/ Dir. of Photography Benjamin Rufi
/ Music Alexandre Tartière, Neyl Nejjai
/ Editor Camille Mouton
/ Art Director Adrien Ernandez
/ Producer Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
/ Production Barney Production
/ Coproduction Mont Fleuri Production, Velvet Films
/ Cast Khansa Batma, Ahmed Hammoud, Saïd Bey
/ Sales True Colours
Ismaël El Iraki (1983, Morocco). Filmography: Carcasse (2007, short), H’rash (2009, short), Zanka Contact (2020).
True Colours
Largo Gemini 1, 00161, Rome
Italy
Phone: +39 063 735 2334
E-mail: [email protected]
Ismaël El Iraki
Film Director
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