The Dupes (1972) المخدوعون

The Dupes (Arabic: المخدوعون, transliterated: Al-makhdu’un) is a critically acclaimed 1972 Syrian drama film directed by Tawfik Saleh and starring Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lotfi, Saleh Kholoki, and Thanaa Debsi. Based on Ghassan Kanafani’s 1963 novel, ’Men in the Sun’, the film portrays the lives of three Palestinian refugees after the 1948 Nakba by following three generations of men who made their way from Palestine to Iraq on the hope of reaching Kuwait to pursue their dreams of