The Gate of Sun

2004 film

  • 18 May 2004 (2004-05-18)
Running time
278 minutesCountriesEgypt
FranceLanguageArabic

The Gate of Sun (Arabic: باب الشمس, translit. Bab el shams, French: La Porte du soleil) is a 2004 French-Egyptian war film directed by Yousry Nasrallah and based on the novel by Elias Khoury. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

The film spans 50 years of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict with a central group of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from the Galilee in 1948.[2][3]

Cast

  • Hiam Abbass - Um Youness
  • Fady Abou-Samra - Dr. Amgad
  • Hussein Abou Seada - Colonel Mehdi
  • Mohamed Akil - Responsible OLP
  • Ahmad Al Ahmad - Adnan
  • Vivianne Antonios - Epouse de Sameh
  • Muhtaseb Aref - Sheikh Ibrahim
  • Gérard Avedissian - Barman
  • Antoine Balabane - Georges
  • Béatrice Dalle - Catherine
  • Darina El Joundi - Femme fantôme
  • Maher Essam - Selim
  • Hanane Hajj Ali - Zeinab
  • Mohamed Hedaki - Abou Essaf
  • Talal Jordy - Tortionnaire
  • Bassel Khayyat - Khaleel
  • Ragaa Kotrosh - Om Soliman
  • Kassem Melho - Ostaz Youssef
  • Orwa Nyrabia - Youness
  • Hala Omran - Shams
  • Nadira Omran - Um Hasan
  • Bassem Samra - Interrogateur
  • Wissam Smayra - Himself
  • Rim Turkhi - Nahila

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Gate of Sun". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  2. ^ Doherty, Benjamin (18 April 2005). "Film review: Door to the Sun". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun". Arab Hyphen. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2023.

External links

  • The Gate of Sun at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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