Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1962
The Broken Wings
Buy The Broken Wings now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'The Broken Wings' is a 1962 film adaptation of the 1912 novel by Khalil Gibran. The film, directed by Youssef Maalouf, faithfully follows its source material in the bittersweet story of a young man's doomed love for a beautiful girl, who is forced by her parents to wed another man.[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/MidEastfilm.html#Lebanon UC Berkeley Film Library]
'The Broken Wings' was the first film produced in Lebanon to receive an international commercial release. Prints of the film were believed to have been destroyed when Beirut was caught up in the destructive chaos of the Lebanese civil war.[http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=4223 Film Threat essay on the production] However, a print was located after the war in an abandoned church outside of Beirut, and the film can still be seen in film festivals and on DVD.
References
Buy The Broken Wings now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1962