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Dry Season (2006)
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Original name: Daratt
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, bleak, captivating, thought provoking, serious
Plot:
revenge, civil war, murder of father, grandfather grandson relationship, apprentice, rivalry, human nature, murderer, violence, boy, gender, blaxploitation, dead father, heroes, youth, graphic violence, young heroes, thief, blind man, radio, pregnant woman, bread, arranged marriage, blackout, petty thief ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: France, Chad, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious, gloomy
Plot:
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Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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