Day of the Falcon

Original title: Black Gold

2011
R
2h 10m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

13K

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Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Tahar Rahim, and Freida Pinto in Day of the Falcon (2011)

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.

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Action Drama History War

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and his modern, liberal father-in-law.Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and his modern, liberal father-in-law.Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and his modern, liberal father-in-law.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

13K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Videos4

Black Gold: Attack The Tanks (Uk)

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Trivia
The film was shot in Tunisia and Qatar. The battle scenes were shot in the deserts of Qatar and took over four weeks to shoot.

Quotes
Prince Auda: God hates the things we do in His name. He hates that.

Connections
Featured in Projector: Black Gold (2012)

Soundtracks
I'm Sitting On The Top of The World
Written by Ray Henderson, Sam Lewis and Joe Young

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Review

Featured review

9/10

Nice Film, Hollywood clichés and a good story

It has a good story (historically irrelevant) about the beginnings of oil exports from the middle east. The leading role is played marvelously while for some obscure reason the accompanying major characters are a bit swallow.

Other than that, it is consistent, the film and the story flow without tiring the audience and with awe inspiring scenes of desert battle.

Baring in mind that I gave a 9 to the film because I really enjoyed it and that's what films are about, I have to address the fact that either my knowledge of the Arab world is far lesser than i thought or the film for some reason follows some ill-thought clichés... Half of the people shown on the film would never pass for Arabs... really never... it's more likely that i would pass for an Arab and I'm Greek than half of the cast of the movie... moreover the "heaviness", if it can be a valid term, of the language reminds me more of Persians and less of Arabs ...

Anyways other than that, it is a good film worth seeing, it will make you worth the time.