1986 · mahfouz · epic · poverty
The Hunger
Directed by Ali Badrakhan1h 52m1986
In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his permission. While in prison, his wife is preparing for a revolution by the poor to demolish this corrupt regime and end the tyranny in the alley.
Our read: The Hunger (1986) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded mahfouz · epic · poverty entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured mahfouz / epic, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
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