Safar Barlik

Safar Barlik (in Arabic سفر برلك meaning The Exile) is a musical and a war film, directed by Henry Barakat and released in 1967. The film stars Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Huda, Assi Rahbani, Berj Fazlian, Salah Tizani and Salwa Haddad. It was filmed in the northern village of Beit Chabab and Douma in Lebanon.

Plot

The film is set in 1914. It displays the struggles of a Lebanese village to smuggle wheat under Ottoman oppression.^[1]

Cast

• Fairuz as Adla
• Nasri Shamseddine as Elmoukhtar
• Huda as Zoumorod
• Assi Rahbani as Abou Ahmed
• Berj Fazlian as Re'fat Bek
• Rafic Sabeii as Abou Darwish
• Salwa Haddad as Oum Youssef
• Joseph Nassif as Elhasoon
• Layla Karam as Zahia
• Salah Tizani as Fares
• Abdulallah Homsi as Asad
• Ahmed Khalifa as Haji Noula
• Ihssan Sadek as Abdo

Songs

Songs from the film include:

• “Ya Tayr” (Oh Bird! يا طير )
• “Allamouni Henni Allamouni” (they taught me your love علّموني هنّي علّموني )
• “Ya Ahl El Dar” (Lords of the mansion يا أهل الدار ).

Safarberlik, historical meaning

Safarberlik (or Seferberlik) is the historical practice during the late wars that the Ottoman government engaged into during the later phases of its empire. Safarberlik signifies conscription practices for the Balkan wars and World War I and the same term invokes all memories associated with war experience.

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