Cinema
The Adventures of Elias Mabruk
مغامرات إلياس مبروك
Jordano Pidutti · 1930
Synopsis
A Lebanese emigrant, who went to America for a long time, returns to his country and looks for his family there. The film, silent, is the first feature film shot in Lebanon.
Context
This silent film is regarded as the very first Lebanese fiction film, and also the first whose director is credited. Its subject, the return of an emigrant who had left for America, would become one of the most frequent motifs of Lebanese cinema. Film histories date it to 1929 or 1930. Its director then made a second silent film, a comedy, and it was not until 1936 that the country again had a fiction production.
Who it is for
A silent film known through works on Lebanese cinema rather than through screenings.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the first Lebanese fiction film, and as the birth certificate of the country's silent cinema.
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