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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% 41 Reviews Tomatometer 80% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score 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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Permalink. 10/10. Madness and sadness at a border crossing. Red-125 19 April 2006. The Syrian Bride (2004) was co-scripted and directed by Eran Riklis. The film is set in the occupied Golan Heights. (Note: I'm not an expert on the Israeli-Syrian conflict, nor on the Druze ethnic/religious community.
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 ...
Nov 7, 2005 · Review: The Syrian Bride. Israeli director Eran Riklis’s The Syrian Bride is a multifaceted story about a family’s wedding day preparations. In what has become a Middle East-set movie cliché, border crossings come to symbolize the region’s physical, cultural, and psychological divisions in Israeli director Eran Riklis’s The Syrian ...
Nov 16, 2005 · The Syrian Bride - Metacritic. Summary Directed with equal parts humor and humanity by Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride is set on the sun-baked border between Israel and Syria, a no man’s land that the eponymous bride must cross in order to meet her anxious groom. (Film Forum) Comedy. Drama.
Nov 17, 2005 · The Syrian Bride dramatizes the true-life circumstances that face Druze living in Israel who want to marry within their community but across national borders. Mona (Khoury) knows that once she ...
