Language:
English
Pages:
90 Minuten
Year of publication:
2007
Keywords:
Auswanderung
;
Marokko
Abstract:
Mustapha is the manager of the only bar in the small town of Boujad, in Morocco. The Islamic authorities of the town are eager to close it because consumption of alcohol is prohibited to the Muslims, but they cannot do anything since the city is inhabited by a Jewish community. As long as there are customers who are allowed to consume alcohol, Mustapha is free to go on with his business. But when the Jews of Morocco are starting to immigrate to the new state of Israel, and that the town is emptied of its Jewish community, Mustapha is terrorized about having to close his business. He will make the impossible to keep the only left Jew of Boujad - Shlomo Bensoussan, whose wife Freha and daughter Rachel moved to Israel - from leaving the town ...
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