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Theeb

ذيب

2014

In the Arabian desert of 1916, a young Bedouin boy following his brother as a guide for a British officer is stranded and must survive alone amid raiders and the upheavals of the Great Arab Revolt. A gripping, beautifully shot coming-of-age Western.

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