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Samt al Rai (2014)

Name: Samt al Rai
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015-04-25T16:21:57+02:00
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Mahmoud Abu Abbas, Alaa Najem, Samer Kahtan

Drama | 106 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 106 minuten

Alternative title: The Silence of the Shepherd

Country: Iraq

Directed by: Raad Mushatat

Stars: Mahmoud Abu Abbas, Alaa Najem, Samer Kahtan

IMDb score: 6,5 (19)

Releasedate: 25 October 2014

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Samt al Rai plot

It is 2003, Baghdad has fallen. In a village on the edge of the desert in southern Iraq, the men celebrate. The women wail as if there is a dead person to mourn. It is the start of a poetic and critical story about tradition, honor and appearances. Fifteen years earlier, on a morning like any other, 13-year-old Zahra is sent out to fetch water. Twenties Saoud leaves for the city. Neither one returns. The unmentionable conclusion is quickly drawn and casts a shadow over the village. The families are silent, but beneath the surface slumbers distraught despair. Goatherd Saber, haunted by his memory of that day, keeps his mouth shut in fear...