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The Silences of the Palace

صمت القصور

1994

Returning to the aristocratic palace where she was born to servant women, a young singer confronts the buried history of her mother's life as a concubine and the silences that shaped them both. Moufida Tlatli's landmark drama of women's lives.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Tunisia

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