The Cheetah

The struggle of an ordinary peasant against the feudal system and the authorities.

Set in Syria in the early 1900s. A peasant has his land taken from him by the authorities. He gets imprisoned and beaten by the gendarme, but manages to escape to the mountains where starts a bloody struggle for revolution.

1972

1h 50min

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أديب قدورة
Ighraa
Khaled Taja
أحمد عداس
Asaad Fedda
Abdel Wahab El Garrah
فاتن شاهين

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