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Yomeddine / Desert Highway Pictures production ; in association with Film Clinic ; in association with Wild Bunch ; written and directed by A.B. Shawky ; produced by Dina Emam.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 034 144
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adventure and adventurers--Drama.
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Leprosy.
- Ragpickers.
- Orphans--Drama.
- Orphans.
- Families--Drama.
- Families.
- Ragpickers--Drama.
- Leprosy--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Action and adventure films.
- Road films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Foreign language films -- Arabic.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Motion pictures, Egyptian.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. color
- stamping
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing Home Video, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In Arabic; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation, 5.1 surround sound.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he set out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with all its sorrows, all its hardships and its moments of grace.
- Participant:
- Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Federico Cesca; edited by Erin Greenwell; music, Omar Fadel.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2018.
- Widescreen.
- Special features: Interview with director A.B. Shawky & producer Dina Emam; original theatrical trailer.
- For private home use only.
- ISBN:
- 9786317950306
- 631795030X
- OCLC:
- 1111910053
- Publisher Number:
- 712267381524
- 00712267381524 gtin-14
- 3815-2 Strand Releasing Home Video
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