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Sudanese Film Group

The Rope

33m

Directed by Ibrahim Shaddad • 1984 • Sudan

In this potent allegory set in the wake of an 1822 massacre by Ottoman Egyptian forces, two blind men and a donkey make their way through the Sudanese desert—but who’s leading who?

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