Sacrifices

At a glance

Sacrifices, is a 2002 Syrian movie, directed by Ossama Mohammed, and starring Rafiq Subaie, Maha Saleh, Nihal Khateeb. with a runtime of 112 minutes.

Overview

Sacrifices is a Syrian human drama that opens at the threshold of death. An elderly man on his deathbed wants to bestow his name on one of his newborn grandsons — but cannot bring himself to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow up nameless in the Syrian mountains, left to navigate daily survival in a country shattered by war. Without identity documents, without recognition, and without the guidance of a family patriarch, the trio must forge their own path through impossible circumstances. The series raises profound questions about identity, belonging, and the generational cost of armed conflict, offering an intimate and painful portrait of what war does to children who never asked to be born into it.

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