Middle East--Journey into the Future

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Vladimir Bibic

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows, through the story of a Middle Eastern village farmer, the hardships encountered by a culture whose people are forced to move from the past to the future. In his village, Taufic is a farmer and works the land in the way of his forefathers. In the more modern world, he is a diver for an oil company 400 miles away., Presents a cultural study of the Middle East as one struggling between the past and the future. Uses the life of a village farmer who works half of every month for an oil company to dramatize the conflict between the past and the future.

Complete Record: Shows, through the story of a Middle Eastern village farmer, the hardships encountered by a culture whose people are forced to move from the past to the future. In his village, Taufic is a farmer and works the land in the way of his forefathers. In the more modern world, he is a diver for an oil company 400 miles away., Presents a cultural study of the Middle East as one struggling between the past and the future. Uses the life of a village farmer who works half of every month for an oil company to dramatize the conflict between the past and the future., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.