Director/Script: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Photography: Jacques Bouquin
Editor: Martine Bouquin
Sound: Cyril Moisson
Music: Orchesia Andalusi de Tanger
Production Design: Lerbi Yacoubi
Casting: Dahia Abdallah
Principal Cast: Laurent Grévill (le visiteur), Younès Moktader (Le garcon)
Producer: Mohamed Ulad-Mohand
Co-Producer: Christoph Meyer-Wiel
Production: Astoria Films, Les Films de Brooklyn, Schlemmer Film, ZDF/ARTE
Distribution: Astoria Film
Selected Filmography Edgardo Cozarinsky (since 1989): Guerriers et Captives, 1989; André Chastel: Une sentiment de bonheur, 1990; Domenico Scarlatti à Séville, 1990; Portrait de Borges en Aleph, 1992; Boulevards du Crépuscule, 1992; Citizen Langlois, 1994; Le violon de Rothschild, 1994.
Tangier - once a haven for artists, spies and exiles. In "Fantômes de Tanger", Argentine director Edgardo Cozarinsky traces the faded charm and the myth of the Moroccan port town. His structural principle is the "rencontre impossible" of a European writer trying to resolve a creative crisis on a nostalgic tour of the city, and a Moroccan boy from the south driven by the hope of a clandestine move to Spain. Both characters move in counterpoint through different epochs, in different dimensions. Cozarinsky's use of the double narrative device allows him to avoid pedantic cultural archeology. Interviews and seamlessly integrated film clips revive the past and reconstruct the genius loci as Genet, Burroughs and Bowles must have known it in their day. A successful genre experiment, set on the border between fiction and documentary, a cultural-history travel film of the highest calibre.