A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

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A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy, is a 2019 Jordanian movie, directed by Rami Farah, and starring Fares Al-Helou. with a runtime of 95 minutes.

Overview

"A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy" is an intimate documentary portrait of Syrian actor Fares Helou, who paid a steep personal price for speaking out in favor of freedom of expression — forced into exile from his homeland. Syrian director Rami Farah follows his friend and fellow traveler through the absurdities and alienation of life abroad, filming both the public defiance and the private grief of displacement. A film that is as much about the friendship between filmmaker and subject as it is about the Syrian crisis, it asks what is demanded of those who refuse to stay silent — and what is lost when an artist is torn from his roots.

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