NOVEMBER 11 - 24, 2022
barbican cinemas | ica | curzon soho | soas
THE DUPES
TAWFIK SALEH | 1972 | 107’
wednesday 16 NOVEMBER | 18:15
CURZON SOHO, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, W1D 5DY
The Dupes is based on the 1962 novella “Men Under the Sun” by assassinated Palestinian writer, artist and resistance leader, Ghassan Kanafani.
Set in 1950s Iraq, The Dupes is a stark and stately black-and-white film that traces the destinies of three different men brought together by their dispossession, their despair and their hope for a better future. The protagonists are Palestinian refugees who are trying to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the “Promised Land,” concealed in the steel tank of a truck. Each one believes he can make a new life for himself, but as the film title suggests, their flight is no solution.
"A classic masterpiece of Arab cinema" - Arab Film Net.
"Skilfully directed and crisply photographed..." - Seattle Times.