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Bookmark this pageThe Blood of Hussain (1980)
Director: Jamil Dehlavi
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From Time Out Film Guide
A startling premonition and damning indictment of General Zia's Pakistan, this is nonetheless the very antithesis of crude agit-prop. The eruption of a white stallion from beneath the red desert earth strikingly exemplifies writer/director Dehlavi's accessible use of mythical metaphor to underpin his fiction of contemporary rebellion and martyrdom; and such visual coups abound as he interrogates notions of power and responsibility in the family and the state.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Jamil Dehlavi
Producer: Jamil Dehlavi
Cast: Salmaan Peerzada, Kika Markham, Durriya Kazi, Kabuli Baba, Mirza Ghazanfar Beg, Fauzia Zareen full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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