Poster of A Tale From Nubia

A Tale From Nubia

Plot: Saad Nadim assembles artwork and pictorial sequences to evoke Nubian daily life, customs, and memory at a moment of dramatic upheaval — the planned inundation and relocation of roughly 50,000 Nubians during the Aswan High Dam project. The film functions as an ethnographic tribute and a visual record of a community uprooted by state modernization efforts
Release Date: Monday, January 1 1962
63 years ago
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Portrait of Saad NadimSaad Nadim. Saad Nadim was 41 in A Tale From Nubia as 'Director'
Birthday: Tue, Feb 17 1920 –
Died: Tue, Mar 11 1980