The Mountain

The Mountain

1965 · 105 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama

A young architect struggles to convince a superstitious community, in thrall to antiquity traffickers, to build houses instead of living in precarious mountain caves.

Directed by Khalil Shawky · Written by Fathy Ghanem

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