Nahla (1979) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1979 · 111 mins · Arabic

Directed by

Farouk Beloufa

Starring

Faek Homaissi, Ziad Rahbani, Ahmed Mehrez, Roger Assaf, Nabila Zeitouni, Yasmine Khlat

After the January 1975 Battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon, young Algerian journalist Larbi Nasri is drawn into the turmoil preceding the civil war. Linked to Maha, Hind, Raouf and Michel, he watches the mythic rise of Nahla, a pan‑Arab singer, who one night loses her voice onstage. The crisis surrounding her spreads like an infection, and Larbi, fascinated, begins to lose his own footing.