In 1957, Lebanon entered the competition at Cannes for the very first time with this film, an unforgettably harrowing family saga that became the touchstone of Georges Nasser’s too short career. After her husband leaves her, a young woman raises her children alone, living in poverty in a mountain village. After twenty years, an unrecognisable, shabbily dressed old man returns from Brazil...
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| Countries of production | Lebanon |
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Georges Nasser
Lebanon, 1927 |
