| Daresalam | |
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| Directed by | Issa Serge Coelo |
| Written by | Issa Serge Coelo Ismael Ben-Cherrif Pierre Guillaume |
| Produced by | Pierre Javeaux Issa Serge Coelo Pierre Chevalier |
| Starring | Abdoulaye Ahmat Haikal Zakaria |
| Cinematography | Jean-Jacques Mrejen |
| Edited by | Catherine Schwartz |
| Music by | Khalil Chahine |
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Running time | 105 min. |
| Country | Chad |
| Languages | Chadian Arabic, French |
Daresalam (English: "Let There Be Peace"[1]) is a 2000 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo. It has been considered one of the very few recent African films that has treated the theme of the internecine conflicts that have ravaged the African continent since independence.[2] While set in a fictional African country called Daresalam, it reflects the civil war that ravaged Chad during the 1960s and 1970s.[3]
- ^ F. Pfaff, Focus on African Films, 3
- ^ R. Armes, African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara, 150
- ^ (in French) "Issa Serge Coelo, cinéaste tchadien: "On a encore du travail à faire" Archived 2007-09-15 at the Wayback Machine", Tchad et Culture.