The Balad of Mamelouk
MovieTitle | سراب |
User score | 4 |
Release date | Nov 26, 1982 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Abdelhafidh Bouassida |
Production country | Czechoslovakia, Tunisia |
Production companies | Krátký film Praha, Filmové studio Barrandov, Carthago Films, SATPEC |
Run time | 110 min. |
Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day but he must return to the starting point before sunset.