Albert Samama Chikly

Albert Samama Chikly

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The Girl from Carthage 1924 (7)

The Girl from Carthage (also known as La fille de Carthage) is a 1924 Tunisian film directed by Albert Samama Chikly.
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Zohra 1922 (4.5)

Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".
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L'industrie des éponges 1912

For centuries Tunisia was the leading producer of Mediterranean commercial sponge, which was one of the country’s most important export goods. When, in 1911, Albert Samama Chikli travelled to Libya to film the Italian-Turkish war from behind the Ottoman front, he shot on his way footage for several films that he later sold to Gaumont. In Zarzis, a peninsula south of Djerba in the Gulf of Gabès he documented the traditional sponge industry, from the diving to the sales negotiations on the market. Sponges! Where have you gone? You were the divinities of our childhood bathrooms, you were in every house. We were washed with sponges and played endlessly with them, marvelling at their marvelous capacity to hold so much water and to release it when pressed. –Mariann Lewinsky
Albert Samama Chikli

Albert Samama Chikli

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Le bay de Tunis N/A

Documentary short film centered on the figure of the Bey of Tunis, made in 1912
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Tunis and surroundings N/A

Documentary short film restored by Cineteca di Bologna in 2025 from a nitrate copy preserved by EYE Filmmuseum
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L’Oasis de Gabès en Tunisie N/A

Documentary short film restored in 2025 by Cineteca di Bologna from a nitrate copy preserved by EYE filmmuseum.
Albert Samama Chikli

Albert Samama Chikli

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Pathé Journal 7 juillet 1912 N/A

A documentary short film restored in 4K in 2025 by EYE Filmmuseum from a negative duplicate. Realized by Pathé in 1912 as a part of a series of newsreel films.