Tataouine in Tunisia was the setting for many scenes in the movies of which blockbuster franchise?
"the natural beauty and authentic old architecture of some southern Tunisian towns, where he decided to film the important Tatooine scenes of ""Star Wars"", as well as ""Indiana Jones"". Moreover, Anthony Minghella filmed the nine Academy Awards winner ""The English Patient"" in a southwestern oasis of the country. Domestic Tunisian productions were rare. The few movies which were produced since 1967 tried to reflect the new social dynamics, development, identity research and modernity shock. Some of them achieved relative success outside Tunisia, including ""La Goulette"" (""Halq El-Wadi"", 1996). Directed by Ferid Boughedir, ""La Goulette"" showed a flashback of typical community"
"alongside the main unit instead of afterwards because of the high number of shots to be completed daily. The Tunisian desert was again used for the Tatooine scenes; Mos Espa was built outside the city of Tozeur. On the night following the third day of shooting in Tozeur, an unexpected sandstorm destroyed many of the sets and props. The production was quickly rescheduled to allow for repairs and was able to leave Tunisia on the date originally planned. The Italian Caserta Palace was used as the interior of the Theed City Naboo Palace; it was used as a location for"
"canyon scenes featuring Jawas and Tusken Raiders. When crews returned to Tunisia to film for the Star Wars prequel films in 1998, locations at Onk Jemal in Tozeur, Ksar Ouled Soltane and Ksar Hadada, Ghoumrassen were used for Tatooine scenes. Abandoned sets for the filming have been left in the desert. Tatooine originally featured in the 1977 film ""Star Wars"" (later retitled ""Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope""), and was the first planet to be seen in the film franchise. In the opening scene, the planet and two of its moons are seen in space against a sea of"
"the Tunisian sands made the radio-controlled R2-D2 models run out of control. Kenny Baker, who portrayed R2-D2, said: ""I was incredibly grateful each time an [R2] would actually work right."" After several scenes were filmed against the volcanic canyons outside Tozeur, production moved to Matmata to film Luke's home on Tatooine. Lucas chose Hotel Sidi Driss, which is larger than the typical underground dwellings, to shoot the interior of Luke's homestead. Additional scenes for Tatooine were filmed at Death Valley in North America. After completing two and a half weeks of filming in Tunisia, the cast and crew moved into"
"of the Hutts, a clan of gangsters and crime lords. Since Tatooine was beyond the reach of the Galactic Republic, the Hutts presided over the lawless planet with little outside interference. When the Galactic Empire subsumed the Old Republic, the new regime established only a token presence on Tatooine, which left Jabba the Hutt’s reign unchallenged. Jabba remained the assumed ruler of Tatooine until his death in the Battle of Carkoon. Its name is derived from a city in Tunisia, Tataouine (and the eponymous governorate) near to where various scenes were filmed. Because Tatooine features so prominently in the ""Star"
"the film and told Reynolds to let the boulder roll another . The scenes set in Egypt were filmed in Tunisia, and the canyon where Indiana threatens to blow up the Ark was shot in Sidi Bouhlel, just outside Tozeur. The canyon location had been used for the Tatooine scenes from 1977's ""Star Wars"" (many of the location crew members were the same for both films) where R2-D2 was attacked by Jawas. The Tanis scenes were filmed in nearby Sedala, a harsh place due to heat and disease. Several cast and crew members fell ill and Rhys-Davies defecated in his"
"life in the eponymous small suburb, during a period when Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in tolerance and peace. Boughedir's ""Halfaouine: Child of the Terraces"" (""Asfour Stah"", 1990) is possibly the biggest popular success in the history of Tunisian cinema; it showed the life of a child from the Halfouine suburb of Tunis in the 1960s, and his quest to understand relationships, the world of women and how to be a man. In earlier films, including ""Man of Ashes"" (""Rih Essedd"", 1986), director and writer Nouri Bouzid depicts controversial issues in Tunisian society, addressing social issues like prostitution, pedophilia"
"first cinema, the Omnia Pathé, opened in October 1908. The first film club opened in Tunis in 1946 and the Globe, in 1965. The Carthage Film Festival is the oldest established film festival in Africa, running biennially until 2014 and annually thereafter. In 1990, Ferid Boughedir shot the notable film ""Halfaouine Child of the Terraces"" in Halfaouine district. The films ""The English Patient"" (1996) and ""The Last Days of Pompeii"" (2003) were also shot in studios in Tunis. The city holds several festivals each year, of which the largest is the International Festival of Carthage which takes place in July"
"Tunnel to France, and rode south to Italy. The European leg ended in Sicily, where they caught a ferry to Tunisia. In Tunisia, McGregor and Boorman visited the set of ""Star Wars"" and then rode into Libya. However, American producer David Alexanian and cameraman Jimmy Simak were unable to obtain the necessary entry visas and were forced to fly from Tunisia to Egypt. After visiting the pyramids they boarded a ferry to Sudan, continued into Ethiopia and then into Kenya, where they crossed the equator. From Kenya they rode to Uganda and then Rwanda, where they had an audience with"
"Tatooine Tatooine () is a fictional desert planet that appears in the ""Star Wars"" space opera franchise. It is beige-coloured and is depicted as a remote, desolate world orbiting a pair of binary stars, and inhabited by human settlers and a variety of other life forms. The planet was first seen in the original 1977 film ""Star Wars"", and has to date featured in a total of six ""Star Wars"" theatrical films. It is noted as the home planet of the protagonist of the ""Star Wars"" saga, Luke Skywalker, and also of his father, Anakin Skywalker. Shots of the binary"
"company, Tunis-Film, started its activities. After independence, movies were exclusively produced by SATPEC (Société Anonyme Tunisienne de Production et d'Expansion Cinématographique), which controlled cinema and filming productions in the country at the time. Nevertheless, during the 1980s, private production companies and studios emerged and wanted to make Tunisia the Mediterranean Hollywood. The producer Tarak Ben Ammar, a nephew of Wasila Bourguiba, succeeded in attracting some big production companies to shoot in his studios in Monastir. Major foreign movies were filmed in Tunisia, including Roman Polanski's ""Pirates"" and Franco Zeffirelli's ""Jesus of Nazareth"". After visiting Tunisia, George Lucas was seduced by"
"said he wanted to also make it look more ""spacy"" or outer space-like in style. When principal photography began on March 22, 1976, in the Tunisian desert for the scenes on Tatooine, the project faced several problems. Lucas fell behind schedule in the first week of shooting due to malfunctioning props and electronic breakdowns. Moreover, a rare Tunisian rainstorm struck the country, which further disrupted filming. Taylor said, ""you couldn't really see where the land ended and the sky began. It was all a gray mess, and the robots were just a blur."" Given this situation, Lucas requested for heavy"
"planet in """". Prior to production, early artwork commissioned by Lucas from conceptual illustrator Ralph McQuarrie show robots lost on a desert world, scorched by twin suns and mysterious, masked Tusken Raiders riding large horned Banthas. George Lucas originally envisaged filming the Utapau/Tatooine scenes in Algeria (inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film ""The Passenger""), Libya or Iran, but these locations were rejected by 20th Century Fox. When production began on ""Star Wars"", production designers John Barry and Robert Watts scouted for filming locations in Morocco and Tunisia. Lucas, accompanied by producer Gary Kurtz visited the Tunisian Island of Djerba with"
"flee to Tunisia. Once there they are mistaken for mobsters, themselves, and get mixed up in a fast-food empire war. Eventually they straighten everything out and open a restaurant together, a combination American Fast Food and Oriental Slow Food establishment. This was one of two films that Jerry Lewis made in the 1980s strictly for European release. They have never been released in the US, although it was given a tentative US release title: How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave. Lewis has stated that as long as he has control over distribution they will never be"
"judgment about what to do with my lights. Originally, Lucas envisioned the planet of Tatooine, where much of the film would take place, as a jungle planet. Gary Kurtz traveled to the Philippines to scout locations; however, because of the idea of spending months filming in the jungle would make Lucas ""itchy"", the director refined his vision and made Tatooine a desert planet instead. Kurtz then researched all American, North African, and Middle Eastern deserts, and found Tunisia, near the Sahara desert, as the ideal location. In the director's commentary of the 2004 DVD edition of ""A New Hope"", Lucas"
"Club International, are also honored in hotels, restaurants, and artisans shops. Sidi Bouhlel (Arabic: سيدى بحلال) is a marabout in south-west Tunisia near to the town Tozeur. It is located at 34°01′56″N, 08°16′59″E at that is famous as a set for ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", ""The English Patient"" and several films in the Star Wars franchise. Tozeur was used as a filming location for the ""Star Wars"" saga and ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (specifically Sidi Bouhlel canyon outside the town and the salt-flats of nearby Nefta). Lucasfilm also built an entire set a few kilometers north-west of Tozeur"
"Tataouine Tataouine (Berber: Tiṭṭawin; ) is a city in southern Tunisia. It is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate. The below-ground ""cave dwellings"" of the native Berber population, designed for coolness and protection, render the city and the area around it a tourist and film makers' attraction. The name ""Tiṭṭawin"" means ""eyes"" and ""water springs"" in the Berber language. It is sometimes transliterated in European languages as ""Tatahouine"", ""Tatahouïne"", ""Tatawin"" or ""Tatooine"". The city is sometimes also called ""Fum Taṭāwīn"" (), alternatively spelled ""Fumm Tattauin"", ""Foum Tatahouine"", ""Fum Tatawin"", or ""Foum Tataouine"", which means ""mouth of the springs"". From 1892"
"Dance Institute in Tunis]. I also grew up watching musicals of the golden age of Egyptian cinema from the 1940s and 1950s that are still played on television today. My mother and I loved the well-known belly dancer Samia Gamal and the singer Farid al-Atrash."" -Raja Amari, Interview with Bouziane Daoudi in ""Zeitgeist Films"" ""Satin Rouge"" follows widowed Tunisian mother Lilia, (Hiam Abbas) as she radically transforms from housewife to cabaret dancer. Her transformation begins when she becomes suspicious of her teenage daughter, Selma (Hend el Fahem) of engaging in a secret relationship with Chokri (Maher Kamoun), a darbouka drummer"
"des Vents ""quartier"" of the Aulnay-sous-Bois ""commune"". He dropped out of school to become a boxer, rising as high as No. 2 in his weight class in France. He later met actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz; together, they appeared in Kassovitz's film ""La Haine"" (1995), whose plot concerns race and violence in the ghettoized ""banlieues"" of Paris. The following year, Taghmaoui was nominated for a César Award (in the Most Promising Actor category) for his performance. He has since pursued an international career, appearing in films in Germany, Italy, Morocco and the United States (""Three Kings"", 1999). Taghmaoui starred in"
"distribution rights. The French financing came from the publisher Robert Laffont. Production started on 17 February 1957 and finished two months later. Much of the film was shot on location in Libya, with support from the British War Office and the British Army, while some interior scenes were done at the Victorine Studios, Nice, France. Christopher Lee recalls in his autobiography that upon arriving in Libya, all but the main stars essentially took part in a cast lottery for parts. Nobody was satisfied with the role they ended up with, particularly Raymond Pellegrin, who was stuck as an Arab guide"
"the Tunisian government as false. In September 2016, a new oil field was found south of the town by the Italian company Eni. The Ksour Festival () is an annual festival held in Tataouine in March. In Tataouine some people speak a Berber dialect. Tataouine Tataouine (Berber: Tiṭṭawin; ) is a city in southern Tunisia. It is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate. The below-ground ""cave dwellings"" of the native Berber population, designed for coolness and protection, render the city and the area around it a tourist and film makers' attraction. The name ""Tiṭṭawin"" means ""eyes"" and ""water springs"" in"
"Halfaouine Child of the Terraces Halfaouine child of the terraces is a Tunisian film made in 1990, first feature film of fiction by the director Ferid Boughedir. In Halfaouine,a neighbourhood of Tunis, young Noura, finely interpreted by the nephew of the director, is divided between several worlds: that of men in the streets, the women, with whom he can still share the hammam, despite his puberty approaching, and his imagination, in which he fears the transition to adult life. Boughedir paints a happy picture of Tunisian life, and illustrates the subtle and complex relationships between men and women in Tunisia."
"took eight weeks to transform the desert into the desired setting. Other locations included the sand dunes of the Tunisian desert near Nafta, where a scene featuring a giant skeleton of a creature lying in the background as R2-D2 and C-3PO make their way across the sands was filmed. When actor Anthony Daniels wore the C-3PO outfit for the first time in Tunisia, the left leg piece shattered down through the plastic covering his left foot, stabbing him. He also could not see through his costume's eyes, which was covered with gold to prevent corrosion. Abnormal radio signals caused by"
"overall had a mixed to positive reception. The newer films of the two franchises filmed major scenes in the United Arab Emirates. The desert scenes on the planet Jakku in ""Star Wars: The Force Awakens"" (2015) were filmed in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, while scenes for cities in the film ""Star Trek Beyond"" (2016) were filmed in the Emirate of Dubai. The two franchises now offer almost all forms of media ranging from novels, television series, comic books, toys for younger audience, magazines, themed merchandise, board games and video games, as well as fan works. These include canonical and"
"them and were impressed by the desert landscape and the unusual architecture, and selected Tunisia to provide the desert planet setting. Lucas was also keen to shoot at the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata, a decision which extended the shoot by a day and consequently the budget. Filming in Tunisia began on 22 March 1976 and immediately ran into difficulty: the region was experiencing its first heavy rainfall in seven years, which disrupted the setting of an arid desert planet. The Matmata hotel consisted of a troglodyte dwelling in a large hole in the ground. Combined with shots at Chott"
"to domestic productions, they were rare: the few movies which were produced since 1967 tried to reflect the new social dynamics, development, identity research and modernity shock. Some of them achieved a relative success outside Tunisia such as ""La Goulette"" (""Halq El-Wadi"" 1996) directed by Ferid Boughedir which showed a flashback of typical community life in the small suburb of La Goulette in a period where Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in tolerance and peace. ""Halfaouine: Child of the Terraces"" (""Asfour Stah"" 1990), from the same director Boughdir is possibly the biggest popular success in the history of Tunisian"
"scenes in his adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Othello"", which had won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at that year's Cannes Film Festival. In 1955, Alfred Hitchcock directed ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" and in 1962, David Lean shot the Tafas Massacre scene of ""Lawrence of Arabia"" in the city of ""Ouarzazate"", which houses Atlas Studios. Aït Benhaddou has been the setting of many films. The film ""Hideous Kinky"" was filmed in Marrakech. Morocco has many beautiful gardens, including the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech and the botanical garden in Rabat. ""Dar"", the name given to one of the"
"in the West. This strong triangle of friendship threatens Amina's husband, Majid (Raoul Ben Amor), another adulterer who tries to bring the might of the chauvinist side of Muslim society down on her. Directed by Nouri Bouzid, this well-shot film presents us with the very real problems of women in contemporary North Africa, but offers no easy solutions. Bent Familia Bent Familia is a 1997 drama set in Tunisia about Amina (Leila Nassim) a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she"
"by losing weight and capping her teeth. However, at the last minute, director Huston had decided to cast someone whose appearance was more in keeping with natives of Kafiristan. ""We've got to find an Arab princess somewhere"", he is recounted as saying over dinner with Caine. At that same dinner, Caine's Guianan born wife Shakira was present, so Huston and Caine persuaded her to take on the role. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios and at locations in France and Ouarzazate, Morocco. While on location, both Connery and Caine strongly objected to the racist treatment of Saeed Jaffrey, who"
"the multi-car pileup at a desert intersection and encounter the group of survivors, including a wanted smuggler, Omar (Moussa Maaskri), a French woman, Audrey (Marie-Josée Croze), with a sick baby and Saleh, a mysterious ""repairman"" (Roschdy Zem). They embark on a journey of deceit and revelation that culminates in the medina of Essaouira. ""Collision"" marks David Marconi's return to directing, twenty years after ""The Harvest"". Brooklyn Decker and Gemma Arterton were considered for role of Taylor but lost out to Jaimie Alexander. Filming started in February 2012 on location in Morocco and lasted a month and a half, with most"
"Base. The Tataouine Governorate is divided into seven delegations and further divided into 64 sectors. The delegations with populations from the 2004 and 2014 censuses, are listed below: Five municipalities are in Tataouine Governorate: Tataouine Governorate Tataouine Governorate ( """") is the southernmost of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia, the only one to border Algeria and Libya. It is also the largest in covering an area of 38,889 km² and has a population of 149,453 (as at the 2014 census), nearly tied for second least-populated with Kebili (156,961) after Tozeur (107,912). The capital is Tataouine. This is where George Lucas"
"success, it was the reason why Zane was cast as Caledon Hockley in ""Titanic"", the world's second most commercially successful film, and has sold well on VHS and DVD. The movie was filmed on location in Australia, Thailand, and Los Angeles, and featured the Phantom in his attempt to stop madman Xander Drax (Treat Williams) from obtaining a weapon of doom, the legendary ""Skulls of Touganda"". The story also features the Singh Brotherhood, the all-female clan of air pirates known as the Sky Band, of whom Sala is the leader and a subplot wherein the 21st Phantom recovers his father's"
"leg for five or six months in Tunisia didn't appeal to me. It was my youngest son Charlie who changed my mind. He said, 'You gotta take it, Poppa. You'll get to work with Roman Polanski, one of the great directors today. It's an open-air part that could change your career."" Filming began in Tunisia in November 1984. By the time shooting began the budget had blown out to $40 million - Matthau and Polanski each commanded $1 million and the galleon built for the film cost $7-8 million, with $10 million spent on constructing two sound stages. The full"