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  • Dawn (1955)
  • 92 min
Dawn (1955)
92 min
In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night's abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and ...See moreIn the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night's abstraction, light returns its dimension to space and their volume to bodies. Stillness concentrates gaze and duration densify it. The adhan -muslim call to pray- sounds and immobility, that was condensing, begins to irradiate. And now the bodies are those which dissolves into the desert. See less
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Director
Atef Salem
Composer
Medhat Assim
Cinematographer
Bruno Salvi
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Updated Jan 17, 1955
Release date
Jan 17, 1955 (Egypt)

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22 cast members
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