17 Feb 1983
Local Hero
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Santaron Bantaron
What was the impact of the emergence of oil on Kuwait in particular and on the Gulf society in general? How did people behave? What were their customs and traditions?! What was the impact of oil on them, bringing about many changes? The play deals with one of the Kuwaiti villages overlooking the sea, in the late forties, when World War II was ending, and the State of Kuwait, and the Gulf states in general, were preparing to move from the sea - to depend on their livelihood - to the land and desert, where oil began to flow, and with it flowed new customs, different behavior, and ideas that Kuwaiti society was not familiar with.
Top Billed Cast
خالد النفيسي 
سعد الفرج 
علي المفيدي 
جاسم النبهان 
خالد أمين 
محمد حسن 
جاسم الصالح 
Omar Al-Yaqoub 
Redha Ali Hussain 
عبدالحميد الرفاعي سعد كنعان 
Shahd El Yaseen
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