Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s critically-acclaimed, award-winning "Le Challat de Tunis" ("Challat of Tunis") is based on a true 2003 story of a mysterious man on a motorcycle, who rode through the streets of Tunis (the North African country’s capital) carrying a razor blade, on a mission: to slash the butts of women he came across on the city’s streets, whom he felt weren’t dressed appropriately.
They called him "Le Challat," a word which comes from the slang "Chalta," which means a line, or a line cut with a blade or a pen knife, which was something that gangsters used to mark territory, or to mark a person…
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