A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day, the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered as an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raises her children with great difficulty. The elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives in the village. Nobody recognises him, not even his son, to whom he gives his blood to save him.
Retrospective: Ila Ayn by Georges Nasser
DIRECTOR
Georges Nasser
RUN TIME
82 Minutes
LANGUAGE
Arabic
YEAR
1957
Country
Lebanon
English Subtitles
Yes
Genre
Drama, Feature, Retrospective
Cast
Nazha Younes, Laura Azar, Mounir Nader, Raouf Rawi, Chakib Khoury, Tannous Dik
Classification
MRestricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult
Synopsis
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