We were wrong.
We didn’t know anything about our history
before cinema came.

On certain nights, we were close to riots because Ramses II,
alias Yul Brynner had resuscitated in The Seven Samuraï
or Charlton Heston seen on the eve as Moses
had become “el Cid”...

One should say that in those days cinema was a White men’s
concern and White men in films were somewhat of a divine nature.
Images had such power that we did not doubt one second
what we saw on screen. Until the day our actors appeared.

The women were not vamps, and the men were unlike
any of the Hollywood stars we were used to watching.
They were ordinary people, with a normal tan
and normal features.
People were shocked.