Dreams of the City

Dreams of the City or Ahlam al-Madina (Arabic: أحلام المدينة‎) (Dreams of the City) is a Syrian feature drama film by director Mohamed Malas. It is a coming-of-age story of a boy forced to flee his native Quneitra to Damascus in the turbulent 1950s.

Dreams of the City
(Ahlam al-Madina)
أحلام المدينة
Directed byMohamed Malas
Produced byGeneral Organization for Cinema
Written byMohamed Malas
Samir Zikra
StarringRafiq Sbei'i
Hicham Khchefati
Yasmine Khlat
Bassel Abyad
Ayman Zeidan
CinematographyOrdijan Anjin
Edited byHaitham Kuwwatli
Distributed byGeneral Organization for Cinema
Release date
1984
Running time
120 minutes
CountrySyria
LanguageArabic

Plot

The story is an autobiography of Dib, the main character in the film. Dib was brought up by a brutal father-in-law and a mother who was forced into a new marriage. This is partly an aubiography of Malas himself. It is set against the backdrop of the major political events of the 1950s in Syria and Egypt: the end of the dictatorship in Syria, Gamal Abdel Nasser's ascent to power and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, and the short-lived The United Arab Republic between Syria and Egypt in 1958.[1]

Awards
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References
  1. "Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina". mecfilm. Retrieved 18 February 2019.


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