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Jan 10, 1972 · The Dupes: Directed by Tewfik Saleh. With Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abdul Rahman Al Rashi, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala, Bassam Lotfi. Three men, stranded in Iraq, illegally cross the Syrian border to seek work in Kuwait, aided by a water-truck driver.
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- Tewfik Saleh
- 1972-01-10
Set in the 1950s and adapted from assassinated artist, writer, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ghassan Kanafani’s 1962 novella Men in the Sun, Tewfik Saleh’s 1972 masterpiece follows three Palestinian refugees—each man representing a different generation—as they seek safe passage from Iraq to Kuwait ...
Set in the 1950s, The Dupes traces the destinies of three different men brought together by their dispossession, their despair and their hope for a better future. The protagonists are Palestinian refugees who are trying to make their way across the border from Iraq into Kuwait, the 'Promised Land,' concealed in the steel tank of a truck.
The Dupes (Arabic: المخدوعون, transliterated: Al-makhdu'un) is a critically acclaimed 1972 Syrian drama film directed by Tawfik Saleh and starring Mohamed...
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The Dupes. NYFF 2023. October 6th 2023. By. Julia Gunnison. The Dupes was released in 1972, the same year that Ghassan Kanafani—who authored the film’s source material, the novella Men in the Sun (1963)—was assassinated in a car bombing orchestrated by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency.
Oct 28, 2023 · The Dupes (1972) opens with a close-up of a human skeleton and the distant figure of someone making their way across the burning desert. The credits end with the...
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Directed by Tawfiq Saleh. 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.”
