Day of the Falcon (2011)

Original title

Black Gold

Directed by

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 310 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An epic historical war film set in Arabia. It follows the struggle over oil and power between two rival tribes.

epicslow-burnhistoricaldramaticbleaktensevisually lushserious

What happens

Black Gold (also known as Day of the Falcon and Or noir) is a 2011 epic historical war film, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia (also known as The Great Thirst and The Arab). It was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, produced by Tarak Ben Ammar and co-produced by Doha Film Institute. The film stars Tahar Rahim, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Mark Strong and Riz Ahmed. The film received negative reviews and grossed $5.5 million on a budget of €40 million, making it a box-office bomb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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