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Habiba Msika: The Dance of Fire: Directed by Selma Baccar. With Souad Amidou, Féodor Atkine, Néjib Belkadhi, Raouf Ben Amor. Follows the last years of Tunisian singer Habiba M'sikar's life between 1927 and 1930 when she was at the peak of her glory and performed in the "soirées" of Tunis.
Habiba Msika, called The Fire Dance in America, tells the story of a Tunisian soiree singer Habiba M’sika at the peak of her career and the last years of her life from 1927-1930. Selma Baccar’s film follows this Jewish free-spirit once she has already become famous.
Alcanzó fama bajo el seudónimo de Habiba ("amada"). Prototipo de mujer libre y dueña de su destino, carismática y actriz atrevida adorada por el pueblo tunecino, fue un fenómeno social en su época. [3] La película The Fire Dance de Selma Baccar habla de su carrera. [4] [5]
In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.
Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927. Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her.
Habiba Msika: Raqsat Al Naar (1995) Habiba Msika: The Dance of Fire. Movie. Tunisia. 90 minutes. Released. Habiba Msika was a Tunisian-Jewish dancer whose real name was Marguerite (born in 1903 and died on February 21, 1930). She performed a famous theatrical show in the 1920s called “The Dance of Fire” in ...Read more. Director:
11 de dic. de 1995 · By Deborah Young. “Habiba M’sika or the Dance of Fire,” a biopic about an idolized singer of the 1920s who still is famous today in her native Tunisia, hits the mark with an entrancing ...
