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Chronicle of a Disappearance

Chronicle of a Disappearance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 1, 1996

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

سجل اختفاء

Production Companies

MEDIA Programme of the European Union, CNC, ITVS

Director

Elia Suleiman

Description

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.