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Dreams of the City

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Dreams of the City
(Ahlam al-Madina)
أحلام المدينة
Directed byMohamed Malas
Written byMohamed Malas
Samir Zikra
Produced byGeneral Organization for Cinema
StarringRafiq Sbei'i
Hicham Khchefati
Yasmine Khlat
Bassel Abyad
Ayman Zeidan
CinematographyOrdijan Anjin
Edited byHaitham Kuwwatli
Distributed byGeneral Organization for Cinema
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
120 minutes
CountrySyria
LanguageArabic

Dreams of the City or Ahlam al-Madina (Arabic: أحلام المدينة, lit.'Dreams of the City') is a Syrian feature drama film by director Mohamed Malas. It is a coming-of-age story of a boy forced to flee his native Quneitra to Damascus in the turbulent 1950s.[1]

Plot

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The story is an autobiography of Dib, the main character in the film. Dib was brought up by a brutal father-in-law and a mother who was forced into a new marriage. This is partly an autobiography of Malas himself. It is set against the backdrop of the major political events of the 1950s in Syria and Egypt: the end of the dictatorship in Syria, Gamal Abdel Nasser's ascent to power and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, and the short-lived The United Arab Republic between Syria and Egypt in 1958.[1][2]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b Alkassim, Samirah (2018). The Cinema of Muhammad Malas : Visions of a Syrian Auteur. Nezar Andary. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-3-319-76813-7. OCLC 1043658062.
  2. ^ "Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina". mecfilm. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
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