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Sudanese Film Group

It Still Rotates

19m

Directed by Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour • 1978 • Soviet Union

Sudanese Film Group cofounder Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour depicts everyday life at a newly established school for Bedouins in the desert of Yemen.

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