Salut Casa! (or Casablanca Boom Town for English audiences) is a 1952 pseudo-documentary propaganda short film about Casablanca under the French Protectorate. [1] [2] Directed by Jean Vidal, it was screened at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. [3] The film presents Casablanca to French audiences as a miracle of the French mission civilatrice , a modern city in North Africa with high-rise buildings and wide avenues, a bustling economy and rapid development and masterful French planning and administration. [2] The French urbanist Michel Écochard, the director of the Service de l'Urbanisme, Casablanca's urban planning office at the time, featured prominently in the film and discussed how challenges such as internal migration and rapid urbanization were being handled in Casablanca. [2]
The film was dubbed into English and Spanish. [4]
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The culture of Morocco is a blend of Arab, Berber, Andalusi cultures, with Mediterranean, Hebraic and African influences. It represents and is shaped by a convergence of influences throughout history. This sphere may include, among others, the fields of personal or collective behaviors, language, customs, knowledge, beliefs, arts, legislation, gastronomy, music, poetry, architecture, etc. While Morocco started to be stably predominantly Sunni Muslim starting from 9th–10th century AD, during the Almoravid period, a very significant Andalusi culture was imported, contributing to the shaping of Moroccan culture. Another major influx of Andalusi culture was brought by Andalusis with them following their expulsion from Al-Andalus to North Africa after the Reconquista. In antiquity, starting from the second century A.D and up to the seventh, a rural Donatist Christianity was present, along an urban still-in-the-making Roman Catholicism. All of the cultural super strata tend to rely on a multi-millennial aboriginal Berber substratum still present and dating back to prehistoric times.
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The 36th Cannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 19 May 1983. American author William Styron served as jury president for the main competition.
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