{{short description|1973 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Dupes<br/>المخدوعون | image = The Dupes (film poster).jpg | caption = | director = Tewfik Saleh | producer = | writer = Ghassan Kanafani<br/>Tewfik Saleh | starring = Mohamed Kheir-Halouani | music = | cinematography = Bahgat Heidar | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1973|7}} | runtime = 107 minutes | country = Syria | language = Arabic | budget = }}
'''''The Dupes''''' ({{langx|ar|المخدوعون}}, 'al-makhdūʿūn') is a 1973 Syrian drama film directed and co-written by Tewfik Saleh and starring Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lotfi, Saleh Kholoki and Thanaa Debsi. Based on Ghassan Kanafani's 1963 novel, ''Men in the Sun'', the film portrays the lives of three Palestinian refugees after the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight by following three generations of men who made their way from Palestine to Iraq in the hope of reaching Kuwait to pursue their dreams of freedom and prosperity. ''The Dupes'' received very positive reviews from critics and won multiple awards locally and internationally. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival,<ref name="Moscow1973">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 |title=8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973) |access-date=3 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194922/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 |archivedate=16 January 2013}}</ref> where it was nominated for the Golden Prize, and the 1972 Carthage Film Festival, where it won the Tanit d'Or.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gugler|first1=Josef|last2=Yaqub|first2=Nadia|title=Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|date=2011|isbn=9780292723276}}</ref>
==Cast== * Mohamed Kheir-Halouani as Abou Keïss * Abderrahman Alrahy as Abou Kheizarane * Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala as Assaad * Saleh Kholoki as Marouane * Thanaa Debsi as Om Keïss
== See also == * Arab cinema * Syrian cinema * List of Syrian films
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0068899|The Dupes}}
{{Tewfik Saleh}} {{Ghassan Kanafani}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dupes}} Category:1973 films Category:1973 drama films Category:Syrian drama films Category:1970s Arabic-language films Category:Films about the 1948 Palestinian exodus Category:Films based on short fiction Category:Films based on Palestinian novels Category:Films directed by Tewfik Saleh Category:Films set in Iraq Category:Films set in Jordan Category:Films set in Kuwait Category:Films set in Palestine (region) Category:Films set in 1948 Category:Films set in 1958 Category:Israeli–Palestinian conflict films Category:History of the Palestinian refugees Category:Arabic-language drama films {{Syria-film-stub}} {{1970s-drama-film-stub}}