Directed by Shadi Abdel Salam • 1969 • Egypt
Starring Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
One of the most important Egyptian films ever made—and the only narrative feature directed by Shadi Abdel Salam—is a stately, hypnotic experience that has the otherworldly aura of a trance. Based on the true story of a nineteenth-century clan that raided the tombs of pharaohs and sold priceless artifacts on the black market, THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS is a singularly transfixing work that wrestles with nothing less than the meaning and precariousness of a country’s cultural heritage.
Directed by Shadi Abdel Salam • 1970 • Egypt
Starring Ahmad Anan, Ahmad Hegazi, Ahmed Marei
Based on one of the major texts of classical Egyptian literature, THE ELOQUENT PEASANT is a folkloric morality tale in which a peasant, wronged by a greedy nobleman, must rely on his elegant speaking styl...
Directed by Barbara Loden • 1970 • United States
Starring Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of characte...
Directed by Med Hondo • 1970 • France, Mauritania
Starring Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Gabriel Glissand
A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, the debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and the lega...
