Basic Info
Release: January 01, 1972
Runtime: 12 min
Status: Released
The Sad Song of Touha
1972
12 min
Overview
In many ways the sister film to 'Horse of Mud', Al-Abnoudy’s graduation film at the Film School in Cairo is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers. The artistry of this community of fire-eaters, acrobats, child contortionists, and musicians is captured through the lens of Al-Abnoudy’s unobtrusive camera, accompanied by the spare and haunting narration provided by poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudy. Playing with the poetry that offers image and cinema, she pays tribute to those underground enterteiners, giving back its letters of nobility to a marginalized and downgraded popular art.
Genres
Documentary
Music
Production Countries
- Egypt
Spoken Languages
- Arabic ar
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DocAlliance Films
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Cast
Crew
Atteyat El-Abnoudy
Director
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