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The title character is Mona (Clara Khoury) from the village of Majdal Shams, whose wedding day is the saddest of her life. Her arranged marriage to a Syrian actor, whom she has never met, will ...
The Syrian Bride. The Syrian Bride ( Hebrew: הכלה הסורית, romanized : HaKala HaSuryat) is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis. The story deals with a Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village. The film's plot looks at the Arab–Israeli ...
Apr 6, 2006 · "The Syrian Bride" takes place at such a remote corner of the Golan Heights that when an Israeli official refers to it as a "military outpost," a Syrian scoffs at its ramshackle guardhouse and token military contingent. This obscure border crossing is crucial, however, to the future of Mona (Clara Khoury), who hopes to cross from Israel into Syria and be married. Her problem is that Syria ...
85% Tomatometer 41 Reviews 80% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Mona (Clara Khoury), a Druze bride-to-be, lives in a village on the border of Israel and Syria. Her father, political leader Hammed ...
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All of these ingredients are present in Eran Riklis's extraordinary film The Syrian Bride. The bride and groom are Mona (Clara Khoury) who lives in a Druze village in the Syrian Golan Heights, which has been annexed by Israel. The groom is Tallel (Derar Sliman), her cousin who is a television star in Syria. Once she crosses into Syria on her ...
The Syrian Bride ★★ 2004. Mona (Khoury) isn't thrilled about her arranged marriage to her Syrian cousin since it means she can't return to visit her family in the Golan Heights because of the political situation. But Mona, accompanied by her older sister Amal (Abbass), prepares to fulfill her family's wishes despite endless red tape at the ...
Feb 24, 2005 · Mona (Clara Khoury), the eponymous Syrian Bride, crosses the border between the Golan Heights and Syria. Eran Riklis Productions hide caption
