The Syrian Bride (2004)
The Syrian Bride (2004)
DVDRip | AVI | 592 x 320 | XviD @ 915 Kbps | 92 min | 731 Mb
Audio: Arabic-English (mostly) MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs (srt): Arabic, English, Japanese,
Persian, Portuguese-BR, Romanian, Turkish
Genre: Comedy, Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 592 x 320 | XviD @ 915 Kbps | 92 min | 731 Mb
Audio: Arabic-English (mostly) MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs (srt): Arabic, English, Japanese,
Persian, Portuguese-BR, Romanian, Turkish
Genre: Comedy, Drama
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
IMDB - 8 wins
The story line touches many open sores afflicting the Israeli society, prejudice towards ethnic minorities, unwillingness of factions in that society to try and understand and accept one another, police bigotry and sheer racism. As an Israeli living abroad I could relate to all of the above. However, you don't have to be from that region to appreciate this moving and powerful Drama. The film basically deals with the horrific struggle of a family, from a marginalised sector of Israeli society, to get their daughter married to a man over the Syrian boarder however, by doing that they will never be able to see her again. A very very emotional and humane film.IMDB Reviewer
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The Syrian Bride (2004)
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