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The Gate of Sun

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Original title

Bab el shams

Year

2004

Running time

278 min.

Country

Egypt

Director

Yousry Nasrallah

Screenwriter

Yousry Nasrallah, Muhammad Suwaid. Novel: Elias Khoury

Cast

Music

Tamer Karawan

Cinematography

Samir Bahzan

Producer

Co-production Egypt-France-Belgium-Denmark-Morocco;

Genre

Drama. Romance. War | Arab-Israeli conflict

Synopsis

A couple makes love in the early hours of the morning. The woman rises from bed, gets dressed, goes into the street, and calls out to a neighbor - whom she then assassinates. Thus begins Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah's adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Nasrallah, who co-wrote the screenplay with Khoury and Mohamed Soueid, unsparingly details the impact of the nakhba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society, while showing the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts.

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The Gate of Sun

2004

Yousry Nasrallah