Desert Wedding (1949)

- 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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