ساعة التحرير دقت

ساعة التحرير دقت (1974)

In the late 1960s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, anti-imperialist guerrilla movement. Director Heiny Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, to reach the conflict zone and capture this rare record of a now mostly-forgotten war.

Data di uscita
1974-11-06
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (11)
Durata
1 h 4 min
Generi
Documentario
Regista
Heiny Srour

Cast

Curiosità

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived is a 1974 documentary film directed, written, produced and edited by Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour. The film documents the Dhofar rebellion in Oman, focusing in particular on the role of women. The film is notable for being the first film directed by an Arab woman to be shown at Cannes. It is also the most thorough document of the Dhofar rebellion.

Production

Srour was compelled to make the film during her work as a film critic for AfricAsia in 1969, she was interviewing a male delegate of the PFLOAG. She was interested in the feminist description of the Oman liberation group, a moment that Terri Ginsberg describes as "revelatory" for Srour and thus she shifted her focus to documenting the Omani struggle for liberation.

Srour and her crew traveled 500 miles across the desert and mountains and under the bombardment of the British Royal Air Force so that they could shoot the film in Dhofar. According to Srour the sync camera had to be powered by a solar battery due to a lack of available electricity.

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