Cervantes: Link Between Civilizations

Collection title

Collection EPTV

ID

EPT00031

Source

EPTV (DZ)

First broadcast date

04/21/2009

Production year

2009

Abstract

Algeria, land of pirates for some, home of masterpieces for others. Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), novelist, poet and playwright, father of the Spanish literature, was a slave for five years in Algeria, which allowed him to experience the culture, the generosity and simplicity of its people, a truth he expressed in his writings during his detention, as Don Quixote De La Mancha. Interviews with Waciny Laredj, writer ; Louis Roujour Radrigès, Director of studies at the Cervantes Institute ; Domingo Garcia Kando, Director of the Cervantes Institute ; Abdelaziz Bouchfirat, writer ; Father André Tessier,former Bishop of Algiers.

Type

video

Production companies

• EPTV - Own production

Broadcaster

EPTV - 1st national channel

Audiovisual form

Portrait

Primary theme

Latin and oriental christendom

Secondary themes

• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Languages and literatures

Credits / Cast

• Mustapha Faiza - Journalist

Period of events

• From 1500 to 1800

Map locations

• Algeria - Centre - Algiers

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

26m19

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