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The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows, is a 1985 Algerian movie, directed by Merzak Allouache, and starring Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir, Boudjemaâ Karèche, Fazia Chemloul. with a runtime of 85 minutes.
The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows is an Algerian drama film set inside a police station in Algiers in the years immediately following independence. Mr. Rachid, a former colonial official now in his fifties who has been reassigned to a cinema annex library, sits across from an investigator trying to explain the inexplicable: why, after a long and aimless night of wandering through the city's streets, did he murder his former department head? The film draws a quietly devastating portrait of a man hollowed out by disappointment and rage, caught between two eras and belonging fully to neither. A brooding character study that uses the interrogation format to peel back layers of postcolonial disillusionment.
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