Underplayed Gems

The Survivor (1994)

The Survivor poster
Original title
المتبقي
Directed by
Seifollah Dad
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
Iran
Runtime
2h 24m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a Palestinian family displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They return to their home in Haifa years later and confront the new reality there.

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What happens

The Survivor is a 1996 Iranian epic historical drama film about Arab–Israeli conflict starring Salma Al-Masri, Alaa El Din Koksh, Ghassan Massoud, and Jamal Suleiman. The script is based on Returning to Haifa, a novel by the Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani in 1969. The novel is about Israeli Declaration of Independence and its government in Haifa in 1948. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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