Al Wadi - The valley

Name: Al Wadi - The valley
Director: Ghassan Salhab
Duration: 2 h 14 min

Ghassan Salhab, Lebanon, 2014

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Duration

134 Min.

Language

OV Arabic

Subtitles

french

Video Quality

720p

Available in

Switzerland, Liechtenstein

Summary

Wandering aimlessly after losing his memory in a car accident, a manis taken in by the inhabitants of a farm in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon,whose secret business is the drugs they manufacture in a laboratory onthe closely guarded property. The presence of this nameless strangerhas consequences for the clandestine community.Little separates beauty and horror here.

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