Nagi El-Ali

Nagi El-Ali

1992 · 109 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, History

After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.

Directed by Atef El-Tayeb · Written by Bashir El Deek

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