The Land (Al-ard)
By Debbie Cerda on January 12, 2010 - 12:51am
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Date/Time:
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Host:
AFS Essential Cinema
Location:
Alamo Drafthouse -- South Lamar
More info:
Visit external web page. "The Essential Cinema: Films of the Middle East and Beyond" series runs from January 12 through February 16, 2010:
The Land (Al-ard)
Tues Jan 19, 7 PM
Considered by many critics to be one of Chahine's finest films, in the classic The Land Chahine focuses his lens on the plight of the peasants in a
small village exploited by a powerful local landowner, at a time that
Britain and the corrupt Egyptian monarchy still run the country.