''The Broken Wings'' is a

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

film adaptation of the 1912 novel by

Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

. The film, directed by Youssef Maalouf, faithfully follows its source material in the bittersweet story of a young man's doomed love for a beautiful girl, who is forced by her parents to wed another man. ''The Broken Wings'' was the first film produced in

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to receive an international commercial release. Prints of the film were believed to have been destroyed when

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was caught up in the destructive chaos of the

Lebanese civil war The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

.Film Threat essay on the production
/ref> However, a print was located after the war in an abandoned church outside of Beirut, and the film can still be seen in film festivals and on

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References

External links

''The Broken Wings'' in the Internet Movie Database''New York Times'' reviewCity Paper review
1962 films 1960s Arabic-language films 1962 drama films Films based on American novels Lebanese drama films {{1960s-drama-film-stub