La Sueur des palmiers
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عرق البلح
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The Sweat of the Palm Trees
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La sueur des palmiers
director:
Radwan El Kashef
actor:
Sherihan
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Abla Kamel
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Mohamed Nagaty
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Manal Afifi
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Hamdy Ahmed
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genre:
Drama
language:
Arabic
length: 1h 48m
release date: 1998-06-23
IMDb: tt0166486
عرق البلح
overview
Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.