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

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.

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