Goodbye Mothers (2008)

Original title

Adieu Mères

Directed by

Mohamed Ismail

Genre

drama film

Country

Morocco

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Moroccan Muslim and Jewish families in Casablanca during the early 1960s as Jews begin to leave the country. It centers on a tragic event when 44 Jewish emigrants die while secretly trying to reach Israel.

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What happens

Goodbye Mothers (French title: Adieu Mères, Arabic title: وداعا أمهات - Wada'an Omahat) is a Moroccan film directed by Mohamed Ismaïl. Set-up in Casablanca, the movie depicts the fate of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish families during the exodus of the Jews of Morocco in the beginning of the 1960s. The plot inspires itself from the tragic sinking of the Pisces (renamed Egoz), when 44 Moroccan Jews who were clandestinely emigrating to Israel lost their lives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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