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Bedouin (2011)
Director: Igor Voloshin
Cast: Dorji Galsanov, Anna Mikhalkova, Sergey Svetlakov, Dinara Drukarova
Runtime90 min
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Rita's daughter is sick with leukemia. In order to obtain the money for a bone marrow transplant, she travels from Ukraine to Russia to become a surrogate mother. The homosexual couple who are the biological parents of the child die in an automobile accident. Rita is left six month pregnant, without any money, and with a dying daughter to care for. In order to save her daughter, Rita is prepared to do anything. She's drawn into the criminal world, from which she escapes with her daughter to Jordan in the Near East, where Bedouins treat cancer by means of nontraditional medicines.
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Bedouin, the 2011 drama directed by Igor Voloshin, offers a compelling blend of action and emotional depth as it follows a mother's harrowing journey to save her terminally ill daughter, drawing viewers into the criminal underworld and the unique healing practices of the Bedouin people. Fans of powerful, socially-conscious stories will appreciate the film's nuanced exploration of the lengths a parent will go to protect their child.
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The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq/Kuwait). The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert but spread across the rest of the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa after the spread of Islam. The English word bedouin comes from the Arabic badawī, which means "desert-dweller", and is traditionally contrasted with ḥāḍir, the term for sedentary people. Bedouin territory stretches from the vast deserts of North Africa to the rocky ones of the Middle East. They are sometimes traditionally divided into tribes, or clans, and historically share a common culture of herding camels, sheep and goats. The vast majority of Bedouins adhere to Islam, although there are a small number of Christian Bedouins present in the Fertile Crescent.
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