Feature film
حبيبتي يا حب التوت
Marwan Haddad · 1979
Synopsis
A young man from the countryside moves to the city, where his work calls him. He gains a position there, and means to put it at the service of his ambitions for the village he has left and for the people he loved there, so that life in it may at last become comparable to life in the city. But the city has its temptations and its power, and the network of social relations he enters puts his dreams to the test.
Context
Ninety-seven minutes in colour, produced in Damascus in 1979 from a novel by Ahmad Dawoud whose title the film keeps, and whose adaptation the director signs. Georges Lutfi al-Khoury and Mounir Jabbawi handled the camera, Hussein Nazek composed the music, and the cast included Nadine, Abdelhadi Sabbagh, Youssef Hanna, Adnan Barakat and Asaad Fedda. The title is a love formula taken from popular speech, with no direct connection to the plot.
Who it is for
A little over an hour and a half, in Arabic, never released in France; its subject, the uprooting of young rural people, can be followed without preparation.
Prizes and reception
Cited among the important films of the seventies in the review of the fifty years of the organisation that produced it.