Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Ali Nassar | 105 minutes

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The Milky Way

Ali Nassar 1997 fiction 105 min.

Ali Nasser's 'period piece' is set in the Galilee in 1964, where Israel's
Palestinian subjects, still living under the military regime that prevailed
until 1966, are obliged to negotiate a range of social and political
obstacles as they go about their lives. Following the experiences of
Mabruq, the innocent and good hearted young man upon whom the role of the
village fool is imposed, the film cuts to the heart of controversial issues
of collaboration, traditional authority and forbidden passions. It offers
emotional and personal testimony to a time and place in recent Palestinian
history often ignored in writing as well as film.