L'Arabie interdite (1938)
- Directed by
- René Clément
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Rating
- 8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A French archaeologist leads an expedition to film in Yemen, which had never been captured on camera before. The filmmaker faces imprisonment, rebel capture, and lost negatives, but salvages the footage to create a documentary that is later rediscovered and restored.
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