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Zaman - The Man from the Reeds (2003)
Directed by Amer Alwan
“The First Iraqi Film in Over 15 Years!”
Drama · 1h 17m
Zaman is a sweet and sad story about love and devotion, hope and fear. Zaman (Sami Kaftan), and his wife, Najma (Shatha Salim), have built their happy life together in their house of reeds and, though childless, adopted a boy, Yacine (Hussein Imad), orphaned by the 1991 Gulf War. They have lived a quiet, contented existence until Najma falls ill. The local doctor tells them she needs surgery or some special medicine he does not have. And so Zaman sets off in his small boat and journeys up the Tigris to Baghdad in search of the precious cure. Thus begins the journey of salvation and discovery for "Zaman, the Man of the Reeds."
Cast
Shaza Salem
Nizar Al-Samarayi
Crew
- Director
- Amer Alwan
- Writer
- Joëlle Alauzet, Amer Alwan
Details
- Original title
- Zaman, l'homme des roseaux
- Release date
- 2003-11-01
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic
- Countries
- France, Iraq
- Production
- Les Films du Village, Gilgamesh Productions, ARTE France Cinéma