Film

Bab El Shams

(La Porte du soleil)

Histoire(s) du cinéma: Heritage Online

France, Egypt, Morocco, Denmark, Belgium · 2004 · DCP 4K · Color and Black and White · 273' · o.v. Arabic / English / French

The restoration was conducted for Locarno Film Festival – Heritage Online by Cinegrell Postproduction GmbH in Zurich

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Sheherazade's tales of the Arabian Nights were a ploy to stave off her execution. So too, Khalil, a Palestinian feddayin turned 'revolutionary doctor' keeps Younès, a resistance hero, alive by rivers of talk, in the Beiruti camp of Shatila. Khalil's monologue covers 50 years of Palestinian history, from the birth of the State of Israel and the exodus of 1948 down to the Oslo peace agreements.

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Director

Yousry Nasrallah

Screenplay

Yousry Nasrallah, Elias Khoury, Mohamed Soueid

Based on

a novel by Elias Khoury.

Cast

Hiam Abbas, Fadi Abi Samra, Hussein Abou Seada, Fady Abou-Samra

Producer

Humbert Balsan

Cinematography

Samir Bahsan

Editing

Luc Barnier

Music

Tamer Karawan

Production

Ognon Pictures

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