Summary
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 79GoodWatch 77
Letterboxd · 2 K ratings4.1/5
IMDb7.7
Running time
1 h 47 min
A typical length for dramas
typical 109107Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1972
January 10, 1972
54 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Arabic
Original language
Made in
Syria
Directing · 1
- Tawfiq Saleh Director, Writer
Writing · 1
- Ghassan Kanafani Novel
Camera · 1
- Bahgat Heidar Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Sahib Haddad Editor
Sound · 2
- Solhy Al-Wadi Original Music Composer
- Zoheir Fahmy Sound
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