Daratt (2006)

Directed by

Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Austria, Belgium

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man is sent to a city to kill the man who murdered his father. He begins working for the unsuspecting target and must decide whether to carry out his mission.

slow-burntensesombercontemplativeunsettlingausteregroundedintrospective

What happens

Dry Season Arabic: دارات, romanized: Daratt; French: Saison sèche) is a 2006 film by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun. The film was one of seven films from non-Western cultures commissioned by Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival to commemorate the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Inspiration for the themes of revenge and reconciliation was taken from Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. Darratt won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as eight other prizes at Venice and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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