Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
- Suicide or self-harm
- Bleak ending
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and nostalgic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Sveva AlvitiIolanda Gigliotti, aka "Dalida"
- Riccardo ScamarcioBruno Gigliotti, aka "Orlando"
- Jean-Paul RouveLucien Morrise
- Niels SchneiderJean Sobieski
- Alessandro BorghiLuigi Tenco
- Nicolas DuvauchelleRichard Chanfray
- Valentina CarliRosy Gigliotti
- Patrick TimsitBruno Coquatrix
- Vincent PerezEddie Barclay
- Michaël CohenArnaud Desjardins
Crew
- Lisa AzuelosDirector
- Lisa AzuelosWriter
- Antoine SanierDirector of Photography
- Jean-Claude PetitOriginal Music Composer
- Baptiste DruotEditor
- Romain Le GrandProducer
- Adrian PolitowskiProducer
- Bastien SirodotProducer
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