The Dupes.The August sun is a fierce weapon. Amidst the war, occupation, and destitution that form the backdrop of Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes (1972), it is the sun that ultimately represents the greatest danger to its Palestinian protagonists. Impoverished refugees searching for work, the three men attempt to cross the desert border from Iraq to an oil-abundant Kuwait. In a no-man’s-land too deadly to be policed, the trio must put their faith in a Palestinian smuggler to guide them through this trial of fire. The Dupes is set in 1958, ten years after the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes to enable the creation of the state of Israel. Its three migrant characters represent different generations of Palestinians confronting this great dispossession, their paths converging in the Iraqi port city of Basra. Shifting between past and present, the narrative recollects their lives and losses, culminating...
- 11/20/2023
- MUBI
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