Al-Yazerli (movie)
اليازرلي- User score: 6
- Production country: Iraq, Syrian Arab Republic
- Producer: Qais Al-Zubaidi
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1/2/1974
- Run time: 95 min.
Movie description
The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.
