The Dupes
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
- Year: 1972
- Country: Syrian Arab Republic
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: National Film Organization
- Keyword: based on novel or book, escape, tanker, heat, desert
- Director: Tawfiq Saleh
- Cast: Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala, Saleh Kholoki, Thanaa Debsi