The lemon tree [videorecording] / directed by Viola Shafik.

Seattle, WA : Arab Film Distribution, 1993.

1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

"The lemon tree reflects the pessimistic mood of the immediate post Gulf War era in the Middle East. Director Viola Shafik adapts a sad short story by the poet and former Arab League ambassador Ibrahim Ibrāhīm Shukr Allāh and inter-cuts it with stories from his life. Shukr Allāh's painful description of a family's lemon tree which was cut to build and sell a house seem to anticipate the future ordeals of his family, starting with the Egyptian military's defeat in June of 1967. Having returned from Canada, his three children get involved in the anti-Zionist and leftist student movements of the early 1970s and are arrested and imprisoned. Shuk Allāh himself later resigns from the Arab League for political reasons"--Container.

Images / Video & Film

Arabic

February 03, 2006

Writer and director, Viola Shafik; camera, Samir Bahzan; editor, Gasir Gabr; sound, Adel Mounir; music, Mouna Ghonem.

Ali Bahzan, Azza Kamel.

VHS.