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Desert Wedding (1949)

Desert Wedding poster
Original title
Les Noces De Sable
Directed by
André Zwobada
Genre
drama, romance
Country
France
Runtime
1h 01m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman travels to the Atlas Mountains for a wedding in a desert village. Cultural clashes and personal tensions unfold against the stark landscape.

slow-burnmelancholicvisually lushromanticbleakserenetensenostalgic

What happens

Desert Wedding (French: Les noces de sable) is a 1948 French drama film directed by André Zwoboda and starring Denise Cardi, Larbi Tounsi and Himmoud Brahimi. Location shooting took place in the Atlas Mountains of French Morocco. It was originally screened at the 1948 Venice Film Festival before being released in France the following year. The narration was spoken by filmmaker Jean Cocteau. In the United States it was released in 1952 by DisCina with the alternative title of Daughter of the Sands. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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