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Al-Sabbar

Cactus
Kaktusfeigen
Figues de barbarie

Switzerland, April 2000
FILM, Documentary, 97 min.

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directed by
Patrick Bürge
Written by
Patrick Bürge
Status
In distribution
Website
www.yak.ch

Zuhaira Sabbagh, an Arab woman with an Israeli passport, runs a youth group in Nazareth during her free time. Armed with photographic equipment, the group goes looking for the ruins of Arab villages destroyed by the Israeli army in 1948. The photographic investigations are the way these young Arabs have chosen to peacefully resist Jewish attempts to impose their version of history and obliterate all traces of the Arab population that once lived in these villages. The peaceful exploration of this youth group is met with strong opposition from the Israeli inhabitants of these villages. During her investigations Zuhaira Sabbagh runs into Swiss doctor Hans Bernath and his wife Madeleine, who have been in Israel for 50 years as delegates of the International Red Cross, living through all the most important phases of this Middle East conflict at first hand.

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World Premiere
April 2000
Original Version
Arabic, French, English, Hebrew, Swiss-German (french/german subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 97 min.
Production
YAK Film GmbH, Alain Bottarelli, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Max Fahrni
directed by
Patrick Bürge
Written by
Patrick Bürge
Cinemato­graphy
Steff Bossert
Editing
Thomas Bachmann
Music
Mustafa Al-Kurd, Marwan Abado
Location Sound Mix
Max Fahrni

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
YAK Film GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Moa Distribution Distribution
Release date: tba

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