Three Characters in Search of a Theater

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Three Characters in Search of a Theater, is a 1988 Tunisian movie, directed by Kalthoum Bornaz, and starring Raouf Ben Amor. with a runtime of 42 minutes.

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Three Characters in Search of a Theater is a Tunisian documentary film directed by Kalthoum Bornaz, conceived as an urgent plea to save the Municipal Theater of Tunis — a neoclassical landmark erected at the dawn of the twentieth century and facing demolition. Bornaz reconstructs selected scenes from the theater's storied history, blending archival memory with creative recreation to argue for the irreplaceable cultural value of what stands to be lost. The film raises searching questions about architectural heritage, colonial-era memory, and who has the right to erase the shared spaces that define a city's identity. A passionate and elegiac piece of Tunisian cinema, it is both a love letter to a building and a challenge to those who would reduce history to rubble.

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