The Unknown Saint (2019)

Original title

سيد المجهول

Directed by

Alaa Eddine Aljem

Genre

drama film, comedy film, black comedy film

Country

Morocco, Qatar, France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A thief hides a bag of money by a remote desert grave and later returns to find a shrine has been built there. He tries to retrieve his loot while locals treat the site as a holy place.

slow-burndryly comicquirkycontemplativeoddballwhimsicalunderstatedsly

What happens

The Unknown Saint is a 2019 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film directed by Alaa Eddine Aljem. It was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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