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Where To?

1957 · 78 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama

A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great difficulty: the elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives to the village.

Directed by Georges Nasser · Written by Youssef Habchi Achkar

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