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The Dupes

The Dupes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 30, 1972

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Drama

User Score

71%

Original Title

المخدوعون

Production Companies

National Film Organization

Director

Tawfiq Saleh

Description

The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.