Origin: Syria | Fiction | Director: Tawfik Saleh | 107 minutes

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The Dupes

Tawfik Saleh

Based on Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani's novella, Men Under the Sun,
this stark black and white film traces the destinies of three Palestinian
refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future.
The setting is Iraq in the 1950's and the protagonists, concealed in the
steel tank of a truck, are trying to make their way across the border into
Kuwait. The Dupes is one of the first Arab films to directly address the
Palestinian predicament and remains today a landmark film and a political
call to action. "A classic masterpiece of Arab cinema" - Arab Film Net.
"Skilfully directed and crisply photographed..." - Seattle Times.

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