
"When finishing the first part "A la recherche du mari de ma femme", I realized that this wasn’t the end of the story, that it had to continue. Lalla Hobby is, from this point of view, the logical extension of a process which was started in the first part of the story. The first film reveals certain social aspects as well as people’s attitudes in their home country compared with those they adopt once they find themselves in a foreign land. "Lalla Hobby" is also an attempt at sketching a comic and cheerful portrait, of taking a look at a illegal immigration, a burning social issue affecting a number of European countries today ".
Mohamed Abderrahaman Tazi
Production:
ARTS TECHNIQUES AUDIOVISUELS
Mohamed Abderraha’ Tazi
5, rue Lomaria, Hay Riad, Rabat
B.P.2028 Riad, Rabat, 10104 (Morocco)
Telephone: 2127713545
Fax: 2127713545
Coproduction:
CINETELEFILMS (Tunisia), Télévision marocaine (Morocco), Canal+ Horizons (France), TOUZA PRODUCTIONS (France)
With the participation of:
FONDS SUD CINEMA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Centre National de la Cinématographie - France), Fonds d’Aide à la Production Nationale (Morocco), Royal Air Morocco, ACCT (France)
Distribution/International Sales:
ARTS TECHNIQUES AUDIOVISUELS
Contact in France:
TOUZA PRODUCTIONS,
Hassen Daldoul,
81, rue Réaumur, 75002 Paris
Tel. 33 (1) 44 79 04 31
Fax: 33 (1) 42 47 02 88

1997
Original screenplay
Noureddine Saïl sur une idée originale de Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi
Running time
95’
35 mm colour
Feature Film
Original version in Arab, subtitled in French
Director of Photography
Alain Marcoen
Sound
Fawzi Thabet
Music
Abdelwahab Doukkali
Editing
Kahéna Attia
Scenery
Aziz Saïd
Naïma Bouanani
Cast
Amidou (Hadj Ben Moussa)
Amina Rachid (Lalla Hobby)
Naïma Lemecherqui (Lalla Rabiaa)
Ahmed Taïeb El Alj (Hadj Driss)
Samia Akariou (Houda)
Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi studied film at IDHEC (Paris) and at Mass Media Communications (Syracuse University, USA). He has worked as director of photography on several feature films, directed short films, documentaries and commercials, and been a technical advisor and production manager for foreign films shot in Morocco (Robert Wise, John Huston, Mario Camus, etc.). He directed his first feature film in 1981, "Le Grand voyage", then went on to direct "Badis" in 1989, "A la recherche du mari de ma femme" in 1994, and "Lalla Hobby" in 1997.