syria

The Night (1992)

Poster for The Night

In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.

Cast & Crew

Director
Mohammad Malas
  • Profile picture of Fares Al-Helou
    Alalla Fares Al-Helou
  • Profile picture of Sabah Jazairi
    Mother Sabah Jazairi
  • Profile picture of Nizar Abu Hajar
    Nizar Abu Hajar
  • Profile picture of Maher Sleibi
    Maher Sleibi

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Keywords

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