Theeb = Wolf [videorecording (DVD)] / a Fortissimo Films presentation ; a Bayt Al Shawareb production in association with Noor Pictures, in co-production with Immortal ; director, Naji Abu Nowar ; producers, Rupert Lloyd & Bassel Ghandour ; screenplay, Bassel Ghandour & Naji Abu Nowar.
Cataloged from English subtitles. Marji Audeh, Jack Fox, Hussein Salameh, Hassan Mutlag, Jacir Eid. Originally released as a feature film in 2014.
Summary:
"1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb ("Wolf") in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey. The young, mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother, but the group soon find themselves trapped amidst threatening terrain riddled with Ottoman mercenaries, Arab revolutionaries, and outcast Bedouin raiders ... [a] "Bedouin Western" about a boy who, in order to survive, must become a man and live up to the name his father gave him"--Film Movement web site.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)921305888
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
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